This basket contains the ingredients that go into the chewing  of betelnut. Betelnut comes from a type of palm tree and is a mild stimulant. Add to this the leaf you see at  the bottom, tobacco (the  brown  leaf  at the top)  and the  betelnut itself (you can  barely see a few fragments of it on the right, plus the lime (calcium carbonate) in the little medicine bottle, and you get a moderately potent combination that is commonly used by lots of people here. You can tell because you  see the red juice on the street as well as the red stain on peoples' teeth if they have been using it for a long time. I tried it the other day just to see. It left me feeling relaxed and a little bit dizzy which was ok, but the taste was like chewing  a combination of toothpaste and aspirin. Not really for me.