Betel quid generally consists of sliced or crushed areca nut mixed with calcium hydroxide (slaked lime), spices such as cardamom, coconut and saffron, and in some cases with tobacco, to make a packet known as betel quid (BQ), as the areca nut is usually wrapped in the leaf of the Piper betle plant
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Folk Names Andumucua (Tarascan), Aztec tobacco, bauerntabak, cathrinaire, chaque khuri (Quechua), cjama saire (Aymara), gelbbilsenkraut, herba legati, herba medicea, herba prioris, herba reginae, herbe divine, herbe sacre, herbe sainte, huaa, indianisch bilsenkraut, Indian tobacco, klein nicotianskraut, kraut der ambassadoren, kta tobaco (Quechua), kuru (Aymara), latakia, machene, macuche, mahorka, makucho (Huichol), nicotiana media, nicotiane, noholkikuuts (Mayan, south tobacco), nohol xi kuts (modern Mayan, southern tobacco), panacea (Latin, cure-all), pesietl, petum, petn, piciete, picietl (Nahuatl), picitl, piciyetl (little tobacco), pycielt, qonta saire (Aymara), sana sancta indorum, San Pedro, 250 sayre (Quechua), sero (Susu), tabaco blanco (Spanish, white tobacco), tabaco macuche, tabaco rupestris (Spanish, rural tobacco), tabaquillo (Spanish, little tobacco), tangoro, tawa, tenapete, teneshil (modern Nahuatl), tobaco cimarrn (Spanish, wild tobacco), toeback, tombac, tnbeki, toutoune estamboule, trkentabak, trkischer tabak, Turkish tobacco, turkomani tambaku (Afghani), ttn, um-wh (Paez), upawoc, veilchentabak, warimba, wilder tabak, wild tobacco, 251 ya, y, yellow henbane, yetl, ytl History The genus Nicotiana is named after the French envoy Jean Nicot, who in 1560 sent seeds of Nicotiana rustica from Portugal, where he had grown the plant in his garden, to Paris, thereby promoting awareness of the plant (Schneider 1974, 2:359*)
