Monday, October 12, 2009

Piper bettle leaves

Piper bettle plants belong to the family Piperaceae. Its leaves have certain aroma due to their essential oil content. They have certain hard smell. The essential oil contains much phenolic component, especially which are called chavicol and chavibetol. These components have "strong" antiseptic effect, and the essential oil is also a vasoconstrictor. That is why the leaves in traditional medicine are used to help nose bleeding. To use the leaves to stop nose bleeding, just roll the leaf or leaf part, and insert one side of the rolled leaf in the nose ( do not insert too deeply, otherwise it will dammage the nose). After a while the bleeding will stop( if this does not help, you need to go to the doctor ).

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