Common Name: Betel Leaf Oil , Pan
Botanical Name: Piper betle
Family Name: black pepper
Parts Use: Leaves
Color: Yellowish brown

A entwining vine component of the black pepper family, whose leaves bring about a fragrant essential oil fertile in strongly sterilized 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.

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.