The Coconut as The Tree of Life

From the root, medicine can be obtained apart from other equipment. Its roots can be used to treat stomach aches, diarrhea, body and joint ailments and small or minor body injuries.

When it comes to the tree, the strength of its body is comparable to the hardness of a real tree that can be used to build a house, make tools such as chairs and tables.

This is what we use for the roof of our house and the coconut tree is very useful because it can be used for many purposes. Aside from the roof, it can also be used on the floor of the house, stairs, etc. It can also be a divider inside the house or cabinet.

When it comes to fruit, it is part of many lives which is why it is baptized fruit, vegetable and medicine. We can eat the young fruit like a fruit- the Buko. When the coconut fruit is different or old, the juice when the coconut flesh is scraped, we can eat it as a vegetable, except when it can be made into vegetable oil. The most juicy part of the coconut is its core, which can be found at the core of the tree at the top.

The coconut supports the livelihood of about 25 Million people. Here in the Philippines, of the three million hectares that can be cultivated in our country, only 27 percent of the land planted with coconuts is for agriculture. In the 79 provinces of the country, 68 of them have coconut plants where there are 3.5 million growers and workers in coconut. The flesh of the coconut fruit is the source of many products that may be 85 percent of which end up in the foreign market. A strong dollar earner in the Philippines. Of the total oil needed in the world, 59 percent of the oil supplied by the country is used for the production of other products such as soap, shampoo, margarine, cooking oil, cooking oil and many others. If the coconut is not made into copra, we can get milk from the juice of the flesh. The sap can be flour, we can also make what is called desicated coconut which is used for cooking and food and we also export it because many people need it in other countries.

The most interesting part of this tree of life is the fruit of the coconut from which the oil is obtained which is recognized as the best natural oil that can improve our health which is recognized as a strange food which contains the ingredients that can be obtained from the milk from the breast of the woman or mother.

It is recognized as strange because in later studies, lauric oil is present in coconut oil, especially the so-called VIRGIN OIL (which is obtained in a way that is not coppered or subjected to heat or through fire), different from those oil obtained from other vegetables such as soybean, corn, sunflower and olive oil. The importance of coconut in human health, was discovered by accident. Due to the high level of saturated fats in coconut oil, it has been badly published in other countries that it is not good for the heart and has a lot of cholesterol and it has disappeared from the market because oil products such as olive oil are preferred. corn oil, soybean and sunflower oil.

But soon, the trust in coconut oil was restored. Because when it is no longer used and only other vegetable oils are used, the incidence of heart disease and cancer continues to increase in the countries. On the other hand, Asians and others do not believe that coconut oil is harmful and continued to use it, the occurrences of heart disease were found to be minimal.

This is where the experts and students get a basis. It has also been confirmed in additional studies that coconut oil does not cause heart disease, does not harm the body, rather it helps us not to get sick and protects the stability of health so that we do not get cancer and other types of diseases.