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The Wonderful Usefulness Of Coconut You Should Know

I think almost all of us see how coconut body looks alike, how its fruit looks like and how everything in it looks like. When I was a young child, I used to climb a coconut tree and all my legs could acquire red scratches from coconut body bark. I may call it bark hehehe. I do not know the exact name of that bark like covering the entire body of coco tree. When I become big, I realized how useful coco is to humans. Though not all countries rely on the usefulness of coconut, but as being human, it is a must to know even its appearance only. Coconut tree is called tree of life that answers the topic now as to why coconut is useful to you and me and to everybody.

The coco fruits. Coco fruits are so useful and wonderful for its fruit is so meaty especially when it is at its peak. Its meat could be served in many ways or eat the coco meat right away without accessories, lol to make it looks livelier. Now, it is summer here in Philippines and coco fruits , also called young cocos will be sold like hot cakes in stalls for it satisfies thirst and hotness of the weather. Should you want is to be yummy and tasty you may add the coco meat milk and little sugar, avocado, mango, apple, pineapple and any fruit will do. You may refrigerate it and let it cool for few minute maybe 20 to 30 minutes and then enjoy. Also, the juice of the young coconut could cure kidney disorder. You must get the right prescriptions from your doctor. Coco water is sold here like a juice and could be converted to wine after few weeks aging the coco water in a bamboo and covered so tight to produce a very mild and gentle local wine called “tuba”. Tuba could be processed for days to convert it to coco wine, the best wine, organic wine.

The coco husk. Coco husk could do multiple tasks like in scrubbing the floor, scrubbing the kitchen and toilet tiles. It can surely make floor so shiny, toilet and kitchen tiles clean and shiny too .If scrub the floor with a little amount of floor wax the more it become shiny and clean and dust fly away during scrubbing time. There are so many coco husks sold in our local markets and the price is so affordable. A coconut husk is a residue of the coco fruit after its meat is removed. The shell of the coco husk could also be used as charcoal. This is so useful when like to cook fish or meat trough grilling and fire is based from charcoal. Charcoal lasts for many minutes. If you are not careful in dealing with charcoal, most probably your hands and face will be full of charcoal, char hehehe. Charcoal is also sold here by kilo. What a about you there in your country?

The coco body. Coco body is not like coca-cola body, sexy and cutie. Its body is not so huge. Its height could be short or tall it depends on the soil and climate. Usually cocos are so sturdy to look at. Farmers used to tie their animals to a coco tree. It cannot be removed for its roots crawled deeply to the ground and so numerous of them ready to support the body when there is storm to rock it down. That is why coco lumber here is everywhere ready to serve the people to buy the cheaper coco lumber for building a house. There are coco lumber yards in the city where I live and I ask the owner as to how strong the coco lumber is. The coco lumber owner told me that only water or rain can weaken the lumber logs. Te coco logs are used as building cantilevers and walling to a house or any building to be constructed. The difference between coco logs and other logs from a tree like Mahogany is coco is heavier than any other lumber. Plus it needs pets control like Solignub to prevent the logs to weaken and transform to debris falling instantly.

The coco leaves. Coco leaves are called midribs. These midribs are concentrated to broom through their sticks. What to do first is remove the leaves using a knife not that too sharp to avoid harming your hands. It needs skill in removing the leaves to avoid sudden splitting of the coco sticks. Let the coco sticks smooth and shiny. A broom originated from coconut leaves lasts for many months unless intentionally the sticks into pieces or throw the broom onto fire, LOL so goodbye broom. The coco sticks could also be manufactured to toothpicks. Have you seen a toothpick in Philippines? If not, then you have not gone yet to my country. In other countries that I visited, I used a toothpick there not made from coco sticks, but from a refined tree which I do not know its name.

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The coco leaves . The coco leaves are used in rural areas and some in rest houses for roofing. The complete parts are used and the house will have cool ambiance. The only enemy of this roofing is fire. Once coco leaves roofs get dry they can ignite fire .They are flammable when dry, so delicate. Also, when rain comes and the coco roof is not replaced, there is a tendency that water passes through a breakthrough from roof slithers. Coco roofing through leaves need maintenance and constant monitoring to avoid get caught by fire. What if they have plenty of neighbors, fire will surely spread throughout a certain place.

The mature coco fruits. The mature cocos are so useful and beneficial to man. We can get coconut cooking oil out of it. Its cooking oil is safe and good for the body. The mature meat is the source of its cooking oil. It has much usefulness. Its mature water cold be stored and aged in a bottle or whatever if preferred to convert its mature water to vinegar. Coco vinegar is safe as it is comparable to organic foods so with its oil. Cocos grates are very useful in cooking vegetables where coco grates are needed. The food is very yummy mixed with coco milk. There are other uses of coco milk like cooking banana cue, banana turon, banana prater, and banana golden.LOL. There are so many delicacies in Philippines that require coco milk like “ malagkit “, “ biko” and more that in the absence of coco milk no one can produce any of the stuffs most people in our country like to cook and eat.

The coco roots. The coco roots are medicinal in nature. I remember my father when he was still alive. He used to boil coco roots and after the water turned lukewarm, he got a towel and hot compressed his legs pained with arthritis. I was so young that time, but until this time I could still hear the voice of my father saying the coco roots are good cure for arthritis. There will be other benefits of coconut tree which you might like to discover in the net when you have some extra time.

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    • Based on medicinal value, coconut water can improve the immune system, helps in digesting foods, and improve the overall health of the body. You could just replace drinking water with coconut water and still maintain a healthy body.

    • I love the taste of Coconuts, I haven't had one in a long time as they are so expensive here. It is truly amazing how many uses that coconuts have whether it's for nourishment, beauty or health.

    • That is true , and thank you so much for adding some important facts of coconut tree. It is indeed a tree of life. There are countries no coconuts planted. Maybe their climate disallow them to grow coconuts.Like in New Zealand, when I visited that country, I was looking for cocos none were found.

    • @Tracy, that is true this simple creature is so amazing in its features of heath benefits.Coconuts are sold here at a cheap price. Why is it expensive there because they are exported to your country form Asian countries. I do not know if there are coco its in China for when I taught in China I have not seen a single coconut there in Chang Chun city, North China.

    • I love coconuts! It is really a very versatile and useful tree. Thanks, I only knew now that it's roots can be used to alleviate rheumatism pains. I will recommend it to people who have aching legs due to arthritis or rheumatism.

    • @acelawrites, that was what my father dud before to remedy his arthritis.This time there is a very effective medicine that stops pain caused by arthritis. About coconut roots, I doubt if those who suffer pain can make it getting or extracting roots from a coconut tree. The roots are so deep unless see a fallen coconut tree for its roots protrude and can be easily cut , if none very hard. My father used to have roots from our neighbor he paid and from our very own coconut tree.We had coco farm before. This time so hard to ask for roots to a neighbor having coconut tree. There is an effective leaves that could pacify pain and reduce the bulging pain of arthritis but I do not know the English version of that leaves fro its tree called " ALOM." There are two kinds of this the one effective is called babae Alom, lols but true my cousin has her legs restored from bulging due to arthritis.

      Try to ask your neighbors if they know this if they know tell me to give you the procedures to apply this to the affected area.I hope you can go back to this blog to know about this thing.

    • I use coconut oil on my skin and my hair. it leaves my skin soft shiny and smooth and keeps my hair moisturized for a few days. I heard you also use it on ur teeth.

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