Pinang(Areca catechu L.)

Description:
Pinang commonly planted in yards, in parks or dibudidayakan, sometimes growing wild on the river bank and other places, can be found from 1-1400 m dpl. Slim trunked tree, growing straight, 10-30 m high, 15-20 cm diameter, did not diverge with the former leaves the loose. Compound leaves grow menyirip gather at the tip of the stem form roset stem. Pelepah leaf-shaped tube, 80 cm long, short leaf stalk. Leaf blade length 1-1,8 m, have a child leaves 85 cm long, 5 cm wide, with torn and serrated edge. Cob seludang long interest with an easy fall, out from under roset leaves, about 75 cm long, with short stalk ramified cluster. There is 1 female flower at the base, on top of many male flowers arranged in 2 rows of stuck in the groove. Male flowers 4 mm long, yellow, white, stamen 6. Female flowers about 1.5 cm long, green, one will bear fruit. Buni fruit fruit, eggs sungsang rounded aft, 3,5-7 cm long, fibrous wall of the fruit, when ripe red-orange color. One seed, shaped like a short cone with a rounded edge, a bit flat base with a shallow indentation, 15-30 mm long, outside surface of the brownish color to reddish brown, slightly grooved like nets with a more youthful color. Umbutnya eaten as a pickle or lalab, while fruit is one of the ingredients to eat betel, and the plants produce oxygen samak. Pelepah leaves the Sundanya called upih language, used for wrapping food, a mixture of materials for making hats, dsbnya. With seed multiplication.

The disease can be treated:
Worms, flatulence, Luka, berdahak Coughing, Diarrhea, mange, scab, late period, keputihan, beri-beri, malaria, diphtheria; No appetite, Constipation, Pain Management waist, teeth and gum.
Utilization:
PART OF DIPAKAI: seeds, leaves, fiber.
PURPOSE:
Seeds (Binglang):
- Worms: taeniasis, fasciolopsiasis.
- Flatulence due to digestive disturbances.
- Retention swelling due to fluid (edema).
- Pain in the chest fully.
- Luka.
- Coughing berdahak.
- Diarrhea.
- Missed a period, Keputihan.
- Beri-beri, edema. Malaria.
- The eye pupil (miosis) in glaucoma.
Leaf:
- No napsu eat.
- Body length (lumbago).
Fiber:
- Disturbance digestion (dyspepsia).
- Constipation.
- Edema and beri-beri.
Use:
To drink: 5-10 g dried beans or 5-10 g fiber, boiled.
External: secukupnya boiled seeds, water for washing wounds and other skin infections.

HOW usage:
1. Worms:
30 g powder pinang boiled beans with 2 glasses of water, boil
seiama slowly 1 hour. After the cold filtered water
at a time before breakfast.
2. Injuries: The seeds ditumbuk fine, to be used on the wound.
3. Scabies:
Pinang finely grinding the seeds, add a little water until whiting
become pasty dough. Used for refining the body
a scab.
4. Ulceration:
Areca nut, gambier, whiting of each egg spot,
thumb of tobacco and 1 sheet of fresh betel leaf.
The material is mixed ialu fine grinding. Lumurkan on
ulceration that has been cleaned.
5. Dysentery:
Betel nuts is a young yellow washed ago soaked in
1 glass of water for several hours. Drinking water rendaman pinang.
6. Clean up and strengthen the tooth and gum:
Pinang seed thinly-sliced thin. Chewing every day for several
minutes, and ampasnya removed.
7. Lumbago:
Leaves secukupnya washed clean, and fine grinding. Add
secukupnya coconut oil, heat briefly in the top of the fire. Warm -
mengompres used to warm the waist the sick.
8. Diphtheria:
1 seed grains pinang fine dry grinding, seduh with 3 / 4 cup
hot water and 1 tablespoon honey. Once used to the cold
kumur-kumur in the throat for 2-3 minutes, then removed.
Perform 3 times a day.
Side effects:
Alkaloid compound that dikandung quite dangerous on the units for system requirements. Common is that nausea and vomiting (20-30%), stomach pain, dizziness and nervous. To reduce the incidence vomiting, drink stew after cold medicine. Side effects are rare is wound in the stomach with vomiting of blood.
Signs of excess doses: Many water (qalivation), vomiting, sleepy and seizure.
Pengobalan: Wash with stomach potassium permanganate solution and atropine injection. To reduce the effect racunnya, the seeds of the areca nut should have been dried, or even better when pinang dry beans boiled before drinking. Seeds of areca nut chewing habits, can increase the incidence of cancer mukosa-cheek (buccal cancer).