Coconut, Supari, Kikar and Catha- Traditional Family Medicine (Health Series)

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is called botanically Cocas nucifera Linn and supari or betel nut, Areca catechu Linn. Both belong to the family of palms or Palmae to which many other important plants like date palm and the rhattan palm or the cane yielding palm also belong. This is a large family of plants having 200 genera and 1,500 species widely distributed in the tropical as well as the subtropical regions of the world. Many of them are of multifarious use to mankind, the best example being the coconut tree itself. Kikar is known as Acacia arabica Willd or more popularly the babul tree while catha or Catechu or Black Catechu is Acacia catechu Willd. Both of these belong to a still bigger family of plants called Leguminosae to which many familiar plants like tamarind and beans belong.