Areca catechu

Palma fructus ferens

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Plantae — Angiospermae

Monocotyledones 
Commelinidae 
Ordo : Arecales 
Familia : Arecaceae 
Genus : Areca 
Species : A. catechu 

Areca catechu 
L.  

Synonyma

*Areca faufel Gaertn.

• Areca hortensis Lour.
• Areca cathechu Burm.f.
• Sublimia areca Comm. ex Mart.
• Areca himalayana Griff. ex H.Wendl.
• Areca nigra Giseke ex H.Wendl.
• Areca macrocarpa Becc.

Areca catechu (binomen a Carolo Linnaeo anno 1753 statutum) est species palmarum Arecacearum, ex Indomalaesia orta, cuius fructus in foliis Piper betle involuti masticari solent. Addictio oriri potest quia arecolinum ut nicotinum agonista excitans receptorii nicotinici acetylcholini in systemate nervoso centrali repertum est.

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• 1597 : John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes. Londinii: John Norton pp. 1336-1337 "the drunken date tree"
• 1741 : Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Herbarium Amboinense (Amstelaedami: Chanquion, 1741-1750) vol. 1 pp. 26-32, tab. 4; cf. E. D. Merrill, An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense. Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917 p. 123
• 1753 : Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Holmiae: impensis L. Salvii, 1753) vol. 2 p. 1189 (Latine) "[Areca] cathecu"

Eruditio

• Prakash C. Gupta, C. S. Ray, "Epidemiology of betel quid usage" in Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore vol. 33 (2004) pp. 31S-36S
• Prakash C. Gupta, Saman Warnakulasuriya, "Global Epidemiology of Areca nut usage" in Addiction Biology vol. 7 (2002) pp. 77-83
• Eric Hirsch, "Betelnut ‘bisnis’ and cosmology: a view from Papua New Guinea" in Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, Andrew Sherratt, edd., Consuming Habits: drugs in history and anthropology (Londinii: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0415090393) pp. 86-97
• Camille Imbault-Huart, "Le Bétel" in T'oung Pao vol. 5 (1894) pp. 311-328 Textus JSTOR
• Marcello Spinella, The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain and Behavior. Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-262-69265-1
• Thomas J. Zumbroich, "The origin and diffusion of betel chewing: a synthesis of evidence from South Asia, Southeast Asia and beyond" in Ejournal of Indian Medicine vol. 1 (2007/2008) pp. 87-140 Textus

Nexus externi

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• "Areca Catechu" apud Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases