Since ancient times, the community of Java using betel leaf for traditional medicine to treat various diseases. Among them: a cough, acne, whitish, toothache, dengue fever, whitish, swollen gums and to clean the eye. The content contained in the betel leaf oil is flying (betIephenol), sesquiterpenes, starch, diatase, sugar and leather and kavikol substances that have a deadly germs, antioksidasi and fungicides, anti-fungal.
The way treatment is:

In general to treat diseases in the body, betel leaves, boiled with a little water to the boil, then water is drunk periodically to recover.
To treat skin diseases, betel leaves soaked with water, then used to compress the wound. Likewise for whiteness and acne. Betel leaves soaked in used to wash his face, for the whiteness, which has been soaked in a betel leaf is used for washing the genitalia.
Betel leaves are excellent for treating various diseases with fewer side effects.