Areca palms, the source of
betelnut. which is chewed all over PNG, were planted for consumption and for the market.
Novice
betelnut chewers, for example experience tremors, facial flushing, sweating and nausea [7].
* "
Betelnut Beauty" (Taiwan), Lin Cheng-sheng Best director, Berlin 2002
The main traditional, often aboriginally-introduced, species found in villages and house-yard gardens, in permanent village tree groves, and as protected or deliberately planted intercrops in food gardens, include: coconut palms, a wide range of banana and plantain cultivars, breadfruit, sago palm, nut trees (Canarium spp., Barringtonia edulis, Inocarpus fagifer, and Terminalia catappa), edible pandanus (Pandanus spp.), Malay or mountain apple (Syzygium malaccense), oceanic litchi (Pometia pinnata), Polynesian vi-apple (Spondius dulcis), pommelo (Citrus maxima), joint-fir (Gnetum gnemon), edible figs (Ficus spp.), dragon plum (Dracontomelon vidense), red-bead tree (Adenanthera pavonina), and a number of palms, including the
betelnut (Areca catechu) and Pritchardia and Veitchia spp.
In preliminary analyses, water arsenic, age, sex, cigarette smoking, and
betelnut use were found to be associated with urinary arsenic metabolites and were therefore included in our regression models as potential confounding variables.
On the way back to Sariaya, I met Fraulein
Betelnut in the woods, and I held out my hands, and made her kiss me to get by.
Women use canoes when they go to nearby reefs to dive for the shells from which they make kambang, a kind of lime that is chewed with
betelnut. And both men and women regularly use their canoes to carry food home from their gardens in the Bitoi Delta, located some five to ten kilometres north.
It's just
betelnut, the mildly narcotic seed from the fruit of the betel pepper which truck drivers and labourers use to help them stay awake.
Taiwanese
betelnut farmer-turned-singer Difang, who helped put Taiwan's aboriginal music on the world stage, died at a hospital in eastern Taiwan on Friday.
A few older men and women do not oppose the recent changes, but continue to smoke their home-grown tobacco and occasionally chew wild
betelnut. They generally attend the Saturday church services, but admit that they do so to visit with fellow villagers and do not really understand what the church proceedings are about.
He then stops playing, folds his preret into some cloth, nods to Sanusi for permission to leave, and goes into the outer courtyard to chew
betelnut. For the moment, his job is done.
In a situation of formal hospitality,
betelnut and tobacco would be offered with the words, "em i lo bilong mipela".
More recently,
betelnut palm (Areca catechu) has been used for the same purpose.
