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Areca catechu

Scientific Name
Areca catechu
Family Name
Arecaceae
Common Names
Betel nut, areca nut
Local Names
Supari, gua (Bangladesh), Mak kheo (Laos), Buñga (Philippines), Cau, binh lang, tân lang (Vietnam)
Description
Trunk solitary, quite straight, 10-30m high, usually about 50cm in circumference.Leaves 1.2-1.8m long, pinnate; leaflets numerous, 30-60cm, glabrous, the uppersegments joined; petiole sheathed. Spathe glabrous, compressed. Inflorescencepaniculate, axillary. Monospermous berry fruit, fibrous, ovoid. The seeds are rounded,conical, about 15-30mm wide at the base. (Laos)
Slender palm about l0m. tall. Stem erect, surmounted by a crown of pinnate leaves;petiole broadly expanded at the base. Inflorescence in spadix encased in a spathe;flowers yellowish-white in much-branched raceme, which bears both male and femaleflowers. Fruits ovoid; pericarp hard and fibrous; kernel (seed) brown. (Vietnam)
Uses
Aphrodisiac, nervine, tonic, emmenagogue, urinary, intestinal, worms (Bangladesh)
Indigestion, abdominal pains, diarrhoea, dysentery, beri-beri, oedema, malaria(China)
Fever, detoxification, jaundice, dysentery, bloody stool, diarrhea, taenifuge. (Laos)
Purgative, vermifuge, hypertension, tuberculosis (Philippines)
Flatulence, oedema, dysuria, hyperaemesis, diarrhoea, dysentery, taenifuge, malaria,pupillary, contraction, ocular-tension, glaucoma (Vietnam)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Vietnam - Ha Noi
Remarks
Areca catechu (GRIN)

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