Many plants are thus
becoming probable sources of important drugs and pharmaceutical industries, nowadays, have come to consider
this traditional medicine as a source of bioactive agents which can be used in the preparation of synthetic
medicine. Furthermore, they are possible source for new as well as potent antibiotics to which the pathogenic strains are not resistant. Reports of various researches show that betel extract and betel oil exhibit antimicrobial
and antioxidant activities in model systems