Betel nut: The medicinal properties are bitter, pungent and warm. Returns to the stomach and large intestine meridians. Efficacy: Kill insects, eliminate accumulation, promote qi, diuresis, and stop malaria. Application 1. Various intestinal parasitic diseases. This product has a wide anthelmintic spectrum and has a repellent effect on intestinal parasites such as tapeworms, roundworms, pinworms, hookworms, and ginger worms. It also has a purgative effect to expel parasites. It has the best effect in treating tapeworm syndrome. It can be used alone ("Qianjin Prescription"), or it can be used together with Acosta, such as Shenggong Powder ("Criteria for Syndrome and Treatment"). In modern times, it is often used with pumpkin seeds for its tapeworm-killing effect. Better; used with Shijunzi and Neem bark, it can treat ascariasis and pinworms; combined with black plum and licorice, it can treat ginger fasciolosis. 2. Qi stagnation due to food accumulation, severe diarrhea and diarrhea. This product is pungent and bitter, enters the gastrointestinal meridian, is good for gastrointestinal qi, eliminates accumulation and induces stagnation, and can relieve diarrhea and relieve constipation. Often used with costus, green bark, and rhubarb to treat food qi stagnation, abdominal distension, constipation, etc., such as Champagne Banana Pills ("Confucianism Shiqin"); used with costus, coptis, and peony to treat damp-heat diarrhea. , such as Shaoyao Decoction ("Su Wen Ji Ji Qi Yi Bao Ming Ji"). 3. Edema, athlete's foot, swelling and pain. This product can both benefit water and promote qi, and qi movement can help water transport. It is often used with Phytolacca, Alisma, and Akebia to treat edema and constipation, such as Shuzhe Yinzi (Jisheng Prescription); it is compatible with papaya, Evodia, and dried tangerine peel to treat cold-damp athlete's foot and swelling and pain. , such as Cockcrow Powder ("Principles of Syndrome and Treatment"). 4. malaria. This product is used to cut malaria, and is often used in the same way as Changshan and Caoguo, such as Jiebao Qibao Drink ("Shanghan Suwen Pathogen Qi Yi Baoming Collection"). Usage and Dosage Decoction and take, 3~10g. Repellent tapeworm and Fasciolopsis 30~60g. It has better raw power and slower frying power; the fresh one is better than the old one. Note: Avoid use by those with spleen deficiency, loose stools or qi deficiency; use with caution by pregnant women. Abstracts of ancient books 1. "Famous Doctors": "It mainly eliminates grains, drives away water, eliminates phlegm addiction, kills three insects and lays down corpses, and cures white spots." 2. "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "Xuanli stagnation in the five internal organs and six internal organs, breaking the strong Qi, lowering edema, treating heartache, wind and blood accumulation." 3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Cure severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation, phlegm and wheezing. Treat malaria and prevent miasma." Modern Research 1. Chemical composition: Contains 0.3%~0.6% of alkaloids, mainly arecoline, the rest are arecoline, desmethylarecoline, desmethylarecoline, arecosine, homoarecoline, isodesmethylarecoline Alkali, etc., all exist in combination with tannic acid. It also contains 14% fatty oil, among which fatty acids include lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, myristoleic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, stearic acid, etc. Still contains tannins and betel nut red pigment. 2. Pharmacological effects: Betel nut can cause flaccid paralysis on the tapeworm body. When touched, the tapeworm body will elongate and be difficult to break, so it can drive out the whole tapeworm; arecoline has a strong paralytic effect on pork tapeworm and can make the whole tapeworm All parts are paralyzed, and it can only paralyze the scolex and immature proglottids against beef tapeworms; betel nut has paralyzing or repellent effects on pinworms, roundworms, hookworms, liver flukes, and schistosomiasis; it has a paralyzing effect on skin fungi, influenza viruses, and Helicobacter pylori All have inhibitory effects; arecoline has a cholinergic effect, excites choline receptors, promotes saliva and sweat gland secretion, increases intestinal motility, slows down the heart rate, lowers blood pressure, and eye drops can shrink pupils. 3. Clinical research: 30~120g of betel nut, 50~150g of pumpkin seeds with skin, decoct and extract the juice, take it on an empty stomach in the morning, 30~60 minutes later, take 5~30g of magnesium sulfate powder, 22 cases of tapeworms were treated, and all were cured (Chinese Parasites Journal of Prevention and Treatment, 2001, 2:99); 8g of fresh dried betel nut, soaked in 150ml of water for 1 hour, simmered until 50~70ml, taken once on an empty stomach in the morning, 2 weeks as a course of treatment, treated 32 cases of Helicobacter pylori infection, gastroscopy After reexamination, 8 cases of erosive gastritis were all effective, and 24 cases of duodenal ulcer were effective (Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, 1994, 4: 248); arecoline was made into an eye film, and it was It was placed in the dome of the conjunctival sac and was used to treat 70 eyes of 37 patients with glaucoma. Generally, the pupil began to shrink 10 minutes after administration, and the intraocular pressure gradually decreased after 15 minutes (Journal of Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1980, 3:49). Betel nut is also used to treat malaria, paralytic intestinal obstruction, chyluria, cough and asthma in children, etc.
Betel nut medicinal materials Betel nut slices