Telad // the local drug

Telad – consisting of tobacco leaves, betle nut, lime and buyo leaves. You cut the betle nut into little pieces, put some of them with a piece of the tobacco leave and the lime on the buyo leave and roll it together to a dice or ball. Then you chew it until everything is crushed. Following you spit it out. Warning: do not swallow! In the Philippines many old people like fishermen and farmers do it because it strengthens your teeths and it keeps the spirit alive when the body is already tired. Watch here how to use it.