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1. Influence on Our Health—by Insights of Chinese Medicine In Chinese medicine, betel nuts are called as Dafupei. They taste spicy, bitter, but warm. They have special effects such as anti diarrhea, warm-up, antibacterial, increasing appetizer, and excitement.
2.Influence on Our Health—by Insights of West Medicine Chewing betel nuts not only let our teeth become dark, shaky and unhealthy, but also they will cause oral cancer. In accordance to one survey, eight percent of patients have a habit of eating betel nuts; therefore, these crowds have twenty times higher than normal people, who don not eat betel nuts, by getting oral cancer. Moreover, in the list of male cancer, oral cancer is number 5, withier happening rate or death rate. Habitually eating betel nuts will cause muscle fibers weaken, also known as the previous stage of oral disease. Prior symptoms are hard to open mouth, souring, nonsense. As a matter of fact, West medicine consider some betel nuts are healthy to human beings, but if accompany with drinking and smoking, then the possibility of getting oral cancer will rapidly increase to one hundred and twenty-three times. However, betel nuts still have their benefits in medicine usage. For example, a psycho’s spirit condition will become better if s/he eats some betel nuts. Since betel nuts contain arecoline, it has some therapeutic effects. In combination with West and East medicine perspectives, betel nuts are not totally harmful to our health. Only if we do not add other additions to them, betel nuts are still very good for us. ※ References: 1.http://www2.tdvs.chc.edu.tw/club_spring/doc/no4.htm 2.Bureau of Health Promotion(2007).Betel-nut prophylaxis for ten years. Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, R.O.C. (Taiwan) 3.Zhen-xun Huang(2003). The prevention of chewing Betel nuts. National Health Research Institutes, R.O.C. (Taiwan).
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