COCONUT- A GIFT OF GOD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cocoanut-God’s Gift. A boon to us.

Green Cocoanut.

Cut-opened with a knife, in front of you, put a straw in the carved hole

to sip the cocoanut milk.  The inner cream can be scraped with a spoon.

 

Dry Cocoanut.

When the coconut matures, its sweet water is nectar for human health.

The brown fibre, husk is pulled out and used in coir industry.  Grated or used

for its milk, turned into candies, rice delicacies, and decorating Indian food dishes.

 

When cocoanut green layer turns brown, and dry, the cocoanut surface cover

turns hard like a rock.  The sweet water inside is life giving water not found

in any other fruit.  The matured fruit inside has to be pulled out from the hard shell.

It is allowed to dry and is the cocoanut fruit which bears coconut oil.

The husk has many important uses for ropes.  The hard shell is turned into cups,

used in many ways.  The trunk of the cocoanut tree is used as lumber.

The leaves are used to make broom, used for roofing or making bags.

 

The cocoanut tree is called the Tree of Life.

Cocoanut Oil is edible and it has many other important uses.

 

Cocoanut Oil Bath.

A scene on the brinks of (Kozhikode) Calicut, on the sea-shore.

 

“There are sheds wherein one shed is increasingly getting popular.

It performs the Kaya-Kalpa ceremony.  You are soaked in Oil in a drum for hours.

A wooden drum is filled with coconut oil.

You are dumped in the drum and soaked and suffocated in oil from head to toe.

Two men drag you out.  You lie on a mat in sunshine in open in the sands.  When the body has absorbed the oil, again the same cycle is repeated. You are put on the mat to dry.  In the process you swallow a lot of oil.

They clean the nose, ears and the stomach. A thin layer of cloth is passed through the nostrils.  When the stomach is washed, you will find sickening sticky cough and beetle nut pieces and such other things recovered from the stomach, weighing about a kilo.

 

This is a process from morning to evening. It is like servicing the human body.

The bowels released vicious stored gas and secretion.

 

After the process is over, you are advised to take rest and very light food for a week.”

 

In the olden days before 50 years, the charge was INR 5000. Now it may be ten times.

My father had it done. I had been with him in childhood. He lived ten years longer.

 

This write out is for general knowledge and for normal healthy people.