buyo

There is a plant with leaves after the shape and fashion of the ivy, which is a certain species of pepper which they call buyo, the use of which is common throughout the whole archipelago; and it is so excellent a specific against ulcerated teeth that I do not remember ever having heard it said that any native suffered from them, nor do they need to have them pulled.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

Finally when the members of the court had arranged themselves around their master, he loftily signaled for his buyo; Lewis, nothing daunted, motioned to his striker.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

He put into the basket the betel and the lime and the pungaman and the buyo, and crawled away.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

He cut the nuts and the pungaman into many small pieces, and the buyo-leaf too, and gave them to the monkeys and the other animals.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

The _buyo_ plant is set out on raised beds and trained

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Never removing his eyes from Lewis's face, the sultan completed the ceremony of the buyo, and after deliberately rolling a quid of betel-nut, lime-dust, and tobacco leaves, the august person stuffed it into his mouth.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

Advisers, wives, slaves, and boys with buyo-boxes followed his majesty, who was arrayed in a red silk sarong, grotesquely embroidered with glass beads, colored stones, and real pearls.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

_Buyo_ (_Piper betle_) (Tagálog, _Igmô_), is cultivated with much care in every province, as its leaf, when coated with lime made from oyster-shells and folded up, is used to coil round the areca-nut, the whole forming the _buyo_ (betel), which the natives of these

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Before Piang realized it, Sicto was negotiating with the owner, offering in trade his brass buyo, or betel-box, used for containing a preparation of the betel pepper, extensively chewed in the East.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

From time to time a dependent would come, bend the knee on the royal footstool and present the _buyo_ box, or a message, or whatever His Highness called for.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman