Areca catechu
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Description: A short description and medicinal uses, from 'A Modern Herbal'.
Click on graphic for larger image Botanical: Areca catechu (LINN.) East Indies, cultivated in India and Ceylon. A handsome tree cultivated in all the warmer parts of Asia for its yellowish-red fruits the size of a hen's egg, containing the seed about the size of an acorn, conical shape with flattened base and brownish in colour externally; internally mottled like a nutmeg. The seeds are cut into narrow pieces and rolled inside Betel Pepper leaf, rubbed over with lime and chewed by the natives. They stain the lips and teeth red and also the excrement, they are hot and acrid when chewed.
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