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KUBE

Coconut

Cocos nucifera

MEDICINAL BENEFITS

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Multiple parts â€‹

  • coconut water can be used for the treatment of renal diseases

  • coconut milk is a diuretic, the juice from green coconuts is given to women who have difficult pregnancies, and also treats kidney problems 

Root

  • Tea for diarrhoea and stomach pains

  • Used as toothbrush

Seeds

  • The oil obtained from the seeds can be used for soaps, detergents, cosmetics, candles, pharmaceuticals

Stems

  • Used in treating maternal postpartum illness 

Shell​

  • Make a tea for diarrhoea, amenorrhea, venereal disease treatment 

  • Extract for kidney inflammation, diuretics, gonorrhoea treatment, urogenital inflammation, diabetes, asthma

  • Can be made into a cream for dermatitis and burns

Pulp

  • Oil for diarrhoea, hair loss prevention, wound healing, back pain

  • Can provide relief to rashes caused by HIV/AIDS, treatment of fever and malaria

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

  • The fiber around the seeds is used in making peat free compost where it can replace peat

  • Burnt husks are useful potash to fertilize trees, the husks can be used in the dry season for moisture during the dry season to suppress weeds 

  • Coconut trees can aid other plants that depend on some shade, the old leaves and unused for are great in reducing soil erosion 

  • Coconut trees can play an important role in disaster risk management against hurricanes or tsunami

  • Due to the strong structure of the tree from its root, stem, and leaves it can withstand strong winds, big waves, and other horizontal attacks 

  • Coconut trees can be beneficial when facing a tsunami wither to climb or hold onto

OTHER USES

  • The seed can be eaten raw or cooked its often dried and shredded 

  • The oil can be extracted from the seed and can be used in cooking, making margarines, ice cream, milk

  • Sugary sap can be obtained from the stalk through tapping or cutting the stalks of young flower bunches, the sap can be fermented into an alcoholic beverage 

  • Roots can be roasted and used as a coffee substitute 

  • The pith of the stem is made into bread, added to soups or pickled 

  • Leaves are interwoven and used as a roofing material for walls or huts and the midribs of the leaflets are used for brooms

  • The material around the seeds- the coir: yarn, brush making, mattress fiber, ropes

  • The shell: cups, bowls, buttons, bangles, instruments

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