Plants Pinang As Medicinal Plant

Water decoction of nut seeds used to treat diseases such as menstruation with excessive blood, nose bleeding (nosebleeds), ulceration, ulcers, boils, eczema, scabies, diphtheria, intestinal worms (Pinworms, bracelets, ribbon, rope), diarrhea and dysentery by villagers Kutai, East Kalimantan Semayang-. SelengkapnyaSelain used also to cope with swelling due to fluid retention (edema), a feeling of fullness in the chest, wounds, cough with phlegm, diarrhea, delayed menstruation, vaginal discharge, beri-beri, malaria, memeperkecil pupils. Seed and seed coat the inside can also be used to strengthen the wobbly tooth, together with betel. Water immersion matchmaker seed used for medicinal eye sore by the Dayak tribe Kendayan, dikecamatan Water Big West.
While the Papuan people generally, matchmaker used in conjunction with betel fruit to strengthen teeth. Aside from being a dental restorative, rural coastal communities Assai and Yoon-noni, which was inhabited by tribes Menyah, Arfak, and Serui Biak (Papua), young areca seed is used as a drug to shrink the uterus after childbirth by women with a ways to cook betel nuts The young and the water is taken for one week.
Umbut matchmaker is used to treat broken bones, and back pain (whiplash). Also umbut can also be eaten as lalab or pickles.
Betel leaf is useful to overcome the lack of appetite, and lumbago. Besides as a drug, the leaf midrib is used for wrapping food and mix ingredients for a hat.
Coco nut warm and bitter taste, used for indigestion, constipation and edema.
Nut seeds taste bitter, spicy and warm and contains 0.3 to 0.6%, alkaloids, such as arekolin (C8H13NO2), arekolidine, arekain, guvakolin, guvasine and isoguvasine. It also contains tannin red 15%, 14% fat (palmitic, oleic, stearic, caproic, caprylic, lauric, myristic acid), starch and resin. Fresh seeds contain approximately 50% more alkaloids than seeds that have undergone treatment. Arekolin in addition to functioning as a de-worming as well as a sedative, so that is memabokkan for its users. Given the chemical content of areca plants (alkaloids arekolin) contain poisons and sedatives, so not recommended for use in large quantities.