Herbal Medicinal Plants
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of a knowledgeable herbal medicine practioner! |
The nutritious and
thirst quenching water of the green coconuts is considered sterile enough
to use as an eye wash. An unverified report states that in an
emergency the matter was given intravenously to a child dying of
dehydration by inserting the needle into the coconut eye. The
water is considered effective against bladder infection and drunk for
cooling. The shell and husk are burned to dry copra and the husks are
also used for a mattress stuffing. To treat a toothache, the
shell is lighted and covered to catch the condensation which is applied
to the tooth. As a rub for bles the oil is mixed with soft
candle, lard, grated miskad (Myristica fragrans) and la bom de jes
(sp). If caught in a draught, a three-inche piece of the root of
a young coconut is boiled with a fit weed (Eryngium foetidum), gwen
anbafey blan (Phyllanthus amarus) and an inch of spice root (Cinnamomum
verum) with a little salt. An inch of the root in rum treats
impotency in men. For sore throat a gargle of coconut water and
crushed bird pepper (Capsicum frutescens) is recommended. The water from a yellow dwarf coconut or koko di vin used to wash an irritated eye. other uses of coconut Melvin Smith |