Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.44.13
633.44.13 Areca catechu
Names: 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.
Mind
Good humour, cheerful, gay.
Active, industrious, excitement, stimulated.
Sociable, desire social contact, talking.
General
Sensation: pulsating.
Body
General: 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.
