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Properties of areca nut
A 10-15m tall, cylindrical tree, growing at the top of the tree. Leaves large to feather feathers, have
big hugging tree. Large clusters of flowers, fragrant flowers, above, the flowers below. Young green
eggs, aged in ivory, contain round seeds, used to eat betel and used as medicine.
Areca nut contains 10-15% fat, 5-10% protid, 50-60% glucid, 15% tannin, alcaloid in combination
with tannin 0.3-0.5%. The main alcaloids are arecolin, arecaidin (arecain) guvacolin, guvacin and
isoguvacin, arecolidin. The fruit also contains alcaloids such as seeds (arecolin, guvacolin,
guvacin ...) but with very low content.
Characteristics, effect: areca nut is spicy, bitter, chit, warm, has effect, the antiseptic, but not worms. Cau fruit fruit is sweet, slightly warm, warm, has the effect of air, water, the small school.
It is known that arecolin, the main active ingredient in areca nut is the sympathetic, like muscarin. It
increases the discharge and causes the pupil to contract. At low doses, it stimulates the nerves; At
high doses, it makes the nervous palsy. It increases intestinal peristalsis, numbness of the body like
nicotine, ie, inhibits the nerve and muscles of the neuromuscular junction, causing the fluke to cling
to the intestinal wall.
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