Betel nut?

Anyone every experiment with betel nut? I found it to be invigorating like no other substance, tending to make my whole body vibrate in a very pleasurable way while imparting a very vivid hyperreal quality to my perceptions and surroundings.


I tried chewing it with the leaf and a bit of lime but it was so astringent that I could not keep it in my mouth without completely drying it at first and then making me drool - actually drool out of the corners of my mouth.

I took to grinding it up, forgoing the leaves and putting the whole mess in capsules with a little lime.


It seemed to alter a pot high into a different completely upper, completely clear headed exhuberance (in my case it tended to make pot a tolerable substance).

I've only tried the prepackaged kind with the lime powder already in it. That didn't taste too bad, but it wasn't that pleasant either. I didn't think you were supposed to swallow it, or else the capsules sounds like a good idea. They say that more people in this world chew betel nut for energy than drink coffee. That must be a lot of people, but you never hear about it in the US.