Where is the evergreen tree betel nut a specialty? What are the effects and effects? What are the hazards of regular consumption? What's the difference between olives and olives?

Betel nut, also known as betel nut, belly son, Binmen, olive son, green son, is a common evergreen tree in Hainan, Hunan and other places. It is deeply loved by people because it contains a variety of trace elements. Where is betel nut a specialty? What are the effects and effects? What are the hazards of regular consumption? What's the difference between olives and olives?

Which specialty is it?

Betel nut is mainly produced in Hainan and Taiwan. As for the Hunan specialty of betel nut, it is processed into finished products in Hunan. As a matter of fact, the raw materials are transported out of town. People in Hainan also like to eat betel nuts.

Efficacy and function:

1. Resist miasma

Betel nut has a unique imperial function, is the medicine fruit of doctors of all ages, but also has the nickname of "washing miasma Dan". For example, Hainan mountains rely on the sea, Hunan has many mountains and forests, heavy dampness and miasma, eating betel nut is good to resist miasma.

2. Expelling cold and keeping warm

After betel nut chewing, people often feel excited, red cheeks and slightly sweaty, as if they had been drinking wine. In the past, people living in alpine areas used to eat betel nuts to protect against the cold and relieve fatigue after intense labor.

3. Deworming and digestion

Betel nut contains ingredients that can treat infantile abdominal pain and indigestion, and play a role in repelling worms and eliminating food.

The harm of eating betel nut for a long time:

1. Due to the formation of dental calculi in the mouth filled with limestone and betel nut juice, dentin is consumed by long-term hard chewing, and even teeth are cracked or broken.

4. effect on oral mucosa:

Oral submucosal fibrosis and leukoplakia caused by chewing betel nut, that is, the precancerous lesions of oral cancer, its clinical symptoms are difficulty in mouth opening, pain, numbness, oral mucosa whitening and ulcers.

5. Effect on digestive system:

Betel nut juice dirt pollutes the black lip teeth and cheeks, affects the appearance, damages the taste nerve and saliva secretion, hinders the digestive function, and betel nut residue stimulates the gastric wall, resulting in gastric mucosal inflammation and even perforation, affecting nutrition absorption and malnutrition.

2. Effect on temporomandibular joint:

Due to the occlusal changes caused by the wear and tear of dentin and the wear of the articular surface of the temporomandibular joint and the pain and lesions of the temporomandibular joint, there will be sound and joint pain when the mouth is closed, which is not only painful but also difficult to treat.

3. The effect on periodontal tissue:

As the betel nut fiber is quite rough, it will stab the gums or block the teeth, causing inflammation due to the compression of the interdental nipple, and also due to chewing hard, causing damage to the periodontal ligament, causing inflammation, swelling and pain around the root of the tooth. On the other hand, due to the accumulation of limestone and betel nut residue, the stones become thicker and thicker, resulting in periodontal lesions caused by gingival damage, redness and swelling, suppuration, root exposure, etc., and eventually the teeth fall off or have to be removed.

The difference between olives and olives

I. differences between families and genera

1. Betel nut: betel nut belongs to the evergreen trees of plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, Monocotyledon class, primary order, palmaceae, betel nut subfamily, betel nut family.

2. Olives: plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, primitive perianth subclass, rue order, rue suborder, olive family, olive trees.

II. Morphological differences

1. Betel nut: betel nut stem erect, treelike, more than 10 meters high, up to 30 meters, with obvious annular leaf marks, monoecious, inflorescence much branched, ovary oblong, fruit oblong or ovoid, seed ovoid, flowering and fruiting period 3-4 months.

2. Olives: olives can be up to 35 meters high and 150 centimeters in breast diameter. Leaflets 3-6 pairs, papery to leathery, lateral veins 12-16 pairs, midrib well developed. Inflorescences axillary. Infructescences 1.5-15 cm long, with 1-6 fruits. Ovoid to fusiform, yellowish green at maturity, exocarp thick, nuclear hard, both ends pointed, nuclear surface coarsening. The flowering period is from April to May and the fruit is ripe from October to December.

III. Differences in origin

1. Betel nut: betel nut is native to Malaysia, mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, tropical Asia, East Africa and parts of Europe, while the Pacific region is mainly distributed in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Micronesia. It is sporadically distributed in Pinape Island, American Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands, and betel nut cultivation in Hawaii Islands is only for ornamental use.

2. Olives: olives are native to southern China and are cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other regions. They are wild in ravines and hillside forests below 1300 meters above sea level, or cultivated in gardens and villages. It is distributed from northern to central Vietnam and is also cultivated in Japan and Malay Peninsula.