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Areca catechu

3-633.44.09
633.44.13 Areca catechuNames: Chrysalidocarpus lutescens.
English: Areca-nut; Betel palm; Betel nut.
French: Arequier; Palmier d’Arec.
Content: alkaloids, arecoline; tenaline.
Culture: used in the East as a masticatory (chewing gum) for sweetening the breath and hardening the gums; symbolic in marriage and divorce ceremonies; symbol of the home.
MindGood humour, cheerful, gay.
Active, industrious, excitement, stimulated.
Sociable, desire social contact, talking.
GeneralSensation: pulsating.
BodyGeneral: cancer.
Nervous: psychostimulating, parasympathomimetic.
Eyes: pupil contracted; glaucoma; myopia.
Mouth: saliva scanty, copious.
Heart: arrested; pulse full, slow, fast; anaemia.
Abdomen: slow contraction of the intestines; helminthiasis, worms; tapeworms.

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