Regular use can promote overall well-being in colder months. Chewing paan (betel leaf) as a mouth freshener after meals has been a quintessential part of Indian culinary culture. But do you know ...

Betel quid and areca nut chewing are traditional practices prevalent in many parts of Asia and the Pacific. These practices involve the chewing of areca nut, often combined with betel leaves and ...

Chewing paan (betel leaf) as a mouth freshener after meals has been a quintessential part of Indian culinary culture. But do you know what was the reason behind ending the meal with paan?

Betel leaf is an effective remedy to relieve constipation; consuming it in the right way can get rid of it. People who suffer from constipation should chew fresh green betel leaves. For this ...

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The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has a new law regulating afok or bweesch — lime — that is mostly used in the Pacific islands for betel nut chewing The new CNMI law regulates ...

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It is true that Hensel and Boman 1 recorded action potentials from single cutaneous nerve fibres in man using the microdissection method, but this method cannot be used in routine clinical ...

A 36-year-old man with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare nerve condition, died in a civic-run hospital in Maharashtra's Pune district on Friday, bringing the state's total of suspected GBS deaths ...

High rates of oral cancer are destroying the lives of many who buy betel nuts, often decades after their first taste. Now in Taiwan, where the nuts are affectionately known as 'Taiwan's chewing ...