Botanical description: Piper betle

Plant structure: Leaves

Origin formula: Steam distillment

Origin: Republic of India

Description: A entwining vine component of the black pepper family, whose leaves bring about a fragrant essential oil fertile in strongly sterilised phenols. The leaves are as well ample in amylum, sugars and tannic acid*. The cultivation of this creeper demands a lot of caution and care. Dryness and vulnerability to the sunlight for too long a time period could damage the plant. The heart-shaped leaves have clear-cut beautiful fragrance and are generally eaten alone or with other plant.

Coloration: Yellowish brown

Basic Uses: The betel leaf essential oil is appraised in Ayurveda as being arousing, flatus-relieving, fragrant, heating, bactericidal and even as an aphrodisiacal. It has a lot of medicative application program* among the natives, being particularly utilized to harden the chewing gum*, conserves the teeth, and edulcorate the breath. It is said to improve the vocalization, and is esteemed aphrodisiacal.

History: The Betal Leaf plant develops widely across the total domain betwixt southland Arabian Peninsula and southeastern China According to encyclopaedia Britannica; betel leaf is consumed routinely by a few ten percentage of the Earth population, almost whole of southerly Asia and the Pacific