Many Indians have long chewed paan, a betel leaf wrapped around a mixture of lime paste, spices, areca nut and often tobacco.
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It is not known how and when the lime paste, areca nut and the betel leaf were married together as one drug.
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Indeed, the village has a significant population of farmers and is famous for good quality betel leaf, arecanut, banana, rubber and tapioca.
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As he held forth, servants came bearing a small tray of betel leaf, betel nuts and tobacco, which he stuffed into his cheek.
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In 1972, Niazi was summoned and confessed at the betel leaf and imported Paan, using the official aircraft, from East Pakistan to Pakistan.
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One of the most important crops is Betel leaf plants, which is transported to many places in Tamil Nadu and even to North India.
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"' Mysore betel leaf "'is a variety of heart shaped betel ( Piper betel ) leaf grown in and around the region of Mysore.
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According to traditional Ayurvedic medicine, chewing betel leaf is a remedy against bad breath ( halitosis ), but it can possibly lead to oral cancer.
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Ingredients for chewing betel-- areca nut, betel leaf, limestone paste-- are essential in the small flower-filled canang, a refined Balinese word for the betel quid itself.
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Interestingly, many elders ( with no or weak teeth ) would mix and pound all the ingredients to use without it being wrapped by Betel leaf.
