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Coconut, Coconut Water, Flower Benefits – Ayurveda


Coconut is used in Ayurveda since thousands of years. Apart from culinary uses, coconut and coconut water are also used for medicinal purposes.
Coconut tree can grow up to 30 m high with large leaves arranged at the end of the stem. Narikela is described several times in Brhatrayi texts under Phala Varga. Its fruit, kernel and water are used commonly. But the coconut oil and its usage might have commenced at very later stage. In Kerala, oil extracted from the coconut shell is used as an antifungal medicine.
coconut milk
Botanical Name: Cocos nucifera Linn.
Family Name: Arecaceae, Palmae
Properties:
Rasa – Madhura – sweet taste
Guna – Guru, Snigdha – heavy and oily, unctuous
Virya – Sheeta – cold potency
Vipaka – Madhura – undergoes sweet taste conversion after digestion
Karma– Vata-Pitta Hara – Balances Vata and Pitta Dosha.
Vasti Visodhana – cleanses and detoxifies urinary tract, specifically urinary bladder
Balya – improves strength and immunity
Bruhmana – nourishing, causes weight gain
coconut oil
Coconut benefits according to Ayurveda –Coconut pulp is nourishing in nature, useful for gaining weight. It is coolant in nature, sweet and improves body strength.
Coconut pulp takes a longer time to undergo digestion, improves muscle strength and does natural bladder cleanse.
Coconut causes constipation.
Effect of coconut on Dosha –Coconut calms Vata and Pitta Dosha and increases Kapha Dosha.
Use of coconut in Ayurveda treatment –Coconut is used in small quantities to calm excessive burning sensation, gastritis, heart burn.
Tender coconut is useful in the treatment of fever and skin diseases that occur due to Pitta imbalance.
Benefits of tender coconut water according to Ayurveda –Tender coconut water is natural coolant, calms stomach, relieves gastritis, cleanses urinary bladder.
It helps to relieve abdominal pain due to indigestion.
It also acts as natural aphrodisiac.Coconut water undergoes digestion easily.
It relieves excessive thirst, hiccups, tiredness, and other related Pitta imbalances.

Coconut oil benefitsDifferent uses of coconut as per traditional and scientific uses.
Coconut water to flush out Ayurvedic medicines:If you have taken an Ayurvedic medicine and suddenly start feeling burning sensation all over the body, then drinking coconut water will help to reduce the burning sensation suddenly.
Coconut water sooothes the stomach, and cools down the body.
Being an excellent diuretic, it also ensures that the toxins are flushed out of body.
Vernacular Names:
Hindi – Narial
English – Coconut
Telugu – Kobbari chettu
Tamil – Tengai
Kannada- Tengu
Malayalam- Tenge
Synonyms: Nalikera, Trnaraja, Tunga, Langali, Drdha Phala.
Dhanvantari Nighantu          Amradi Varga
Sodhala Nighantu                  Amradi Varga
Sadrasa Nighantu                  Svadu Skandha
Madanapala Nighantu          Phaladi Varga
Raja Nighantu                        Amradi Varga
Kaiyadeva Nighantu              Oshadhi Varga
Bhavaprakasha Nighantu     Amradiphala Varga
Haritakyadi Nighantu            Phala Varga
Nighantu Adarsh                    Taladi Varga
Priya Nighantu                       Haritakyadi Varga
Distribution:
It is cultivated throughout the Tropics. Chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, but also inland. Plant is abundant in southern India, Malabar Coast, Coromandal Coast, Eastern Bengal, and Islands and vast of Bay of Bengal, Srilanka, Burma and Eastern group of islands.
Flowering and Fruiting Time:
Plant flowers in dry season, generally flowering and fruiting cycle continues round the year.
Chemical Composition:
Phenol, p-cresol, caproic acid etc. in shell fibers; crotonaldehyde, furfural etc. from shell; albumin, globulin etc. from kernel.
The kernel of fruit contains nitrogenous substances, fat, glucose, sucrose and other similar substances. Kernal yield oil (60%-70%) which contains lauric acid (44%- 51.3%), myristic acid (13%-18%), caprillic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid glycerides.
Coconut milk contains protein, sucrose, chlorides, vitamin A and vitamin B. Alkalies contain potash in good quantity.
Indications:
Coconut Flowers –
Raktatisara – bleeding disorders, blood with stools, as in case of ulcerative colitis
Gulma – bloating, abdominal tumor
Jvara – fever
Daha – burning sensation
Coconut Water –
Mutrakrichra – dysuria, difficulty while passing urine, burning micturition
Trishna – excess thirst, dry mouth.
Therapeutic Usage:
The drug Narikela is aphrodisiac, carminative, cooling, diuretic, refrigerant and tonic. It is used for burning sensation in human body, consumption, diarrhea, emaciation, heart diseases, spermatorrhoea and urinogenital diseases.
Narikela is a reputed Keshya (hair promoting or hair beneficiary) herbal agent as the oil of coconut obtained from endosperm of coconut (fruit), applied as single drug as well as an ingredient or oil base of several oily formulations and hair oil largely used in medicine, cosmetic and traditions including household hair care of daily routine.
Parts Used: Fruit kernel, flower, oil, root, fruit shell.
Dosage: Fruit kernel (10-20 g), Kshara (1-2 g)
Ayurvedic medicines using coconut as ingredient:(Click on the product name to know more about the product)
Narikel Lavana – Used in the Ayurvedic treatment of gastritis and related abdominal pain and burning sensation. Fruit is used.
Panchavalkadi Tailam – skincare oil to relieve skin diseases such as eczema and dermatitis. Coconut oil and coconut stem are used.
Amalki tablet – Used in hyperacidity, gastritis etc. Coconut fruit is used.
Tengin Pookuladi Rasayanam – Commonly used Ayurvedic medicine for backache and gynaecological disorders.

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