Pom (dish) used as an ingredient in preparing "pom". The main stem or corm is most frequently designated as "pomtajer" or "pongtaya" (lit. the tajer/taya for "pom"). The first published description of "pom" comes from the "Encyclopedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië" (1914–1917) which describes the dish as follows: ‘the big tajer, of which the stalk grows above the earth, is grated and treated with the juice of bitter oranges, afterwards with chicken or fish, made into a pie, which dish is known as "pom".’ The basic preparation method is sautéed chicken pieces between two layers of raw, grated "pomtajer", mixed with citrus juice
Active ingredient as salicylic acid in willow bark or arecoline in areca nuts), because the word "ingredient" in many minds connotes a sense of human agency (that is, something that a person combines with other substances), whereas the natural products present in plants were not added by any human agency but rather occurred naturally ("a plant doesn't have ingredients"). In contrast with the active ingredients, the inactive ingredients are usually called excipients in pharmaceutical contexts. The main excipient that serves as a medium for conveying the active ingredient is usually called the vehicle. Petrolatum and mineral oil are common vehicles. The dosage