+ Trunk....used as lumber
+ Trunk....used as pillars for homes and shacks..
+ Fronds....used as thatching material for roofs...
+ Fronds....used as thatching material for mats on the floor...
+ Fronds...used as thatching material for walls....
+ Dried fibers...shredded and used as stuffings for mattresses and pillows....
+ Fronds....woven into hats...
+ Fronds....woven into fans...
+ Fronds....woven into decorative items...
+ Fronds...woven into a musical instrument or whistle....
+ Dried Palm wrapper used as toilet paper.
+ Center veins of Fronds....bunched as whisk broom.
+ Center veins of Fronds.....used as toothpick...
+ Center veins of fronds....used as cooking picks
+ Heart of Palm....Good tasting snack...
+ Dried Husk....good fire starter.
+ Dried shell....used as bowls...cups and containers...
+ Dried shell...used as ornaments and decorations...
+ Juice of coconut is mixed with water or rum as cocktail....
+ Meat is used to make oil....
+ Oil for lighting....
+ Oil for cooking...
+ Oil for skin lotion...
+ Oil for soaps...
+ Oil for shampoos and hair cremes...
+ Meat of coconut.....High Energy Snack...
+ Smoke from buring husk make NATURAL Mosquito & Bug repellent...
+ Oil used for internal/external use....
+ ****BAD for folks with high blood pressure...
+ GREAT for weight loss supplements because it increases metabolic rates...
+ Helps prevent obesity....
+ Provides nutritional source of quick energy...
+ Boost energy and endurance...
+ Boost physical performance...
+ Boost athletic performance...
+ Improves digestion...
+ Improves absorption of amino acids...
+ Improves absorption of Nutrients...
+ Improves absorption of vitamins and other minerals...
+ Improves insulin secretion....
+ Improves utilization of blood glucose...
+ Relieves stress on pacreas....
+ Relieves stress on enzyme systems of the body...
+ Reduces symtoms associated with pancreatitis...
+ Helps relieves & reduce health risk associated with diabetis....
+ Reduces problems associated with malabsorption syndrome...
+ Reduces problems associated with cystic fibrosis...
+ Improves calcium absorption....
+ Improves magnesium absorption...
+ Supports the development of strong bones & teeth...
+ Helps protect against osteoporosis....
+ Helps relieve symtoms associated with gallbladder disease...
+ Relieves symtoms asscoiated with crohn's disease...
+ Relieves symtoms associated with ulcerative colitis...
+ Relieves symtoms associated with stomach ulcers....
+ Improves digestion and bowel function....
+ Relieves pain and irritation caused by hemorrhoids....
+ Reduces inflamation....
+ Supports tissue healing and repairs...
+ Supports and aids immune system function...
+ Helps protect the body from breast cancer....
+ Helps protect the body from colon cancer....
+ Heart healthy....
+ Improves cholesterol ratio reducing risk of heart disease....
+ Protects arteries from injury that causes atherosclerosis...
+ Helps prevent periodontal disease and tooth decay...
+ Function as a protective anti-oxidant....
+ Helps to protect the body from harmful free radicals that promote premature aging and degenerative disease...
+ Does not deplete the body's antioxidant reserves like other oils....
+ Improves the utilization of essential fatty acids and protects them from oxidation....
+ Helps relieve symtoms associated with chronic fatigue syndrome....
+ Relieves symtoms associated with benign prostatic hypeplasia (Prostate enlargement)
+ Reduces epileptic seizures....
+ Helps protect against kidney disease....
+ Helps protect against bladder infection....
+ Dissolves kidney stones....
+ Helps prevent liver disease....
+ Dried fibers shredded and woven into ropes...
+ Heart of Palm...used as salad known as "Millionaire's Salad"
+ Sap derived from incising the flower cluster and fermented to produce Palm wine or "tuba"
+ Sap derived from incising the flower cluster and fermented is also used as vinegar or "binaklin chamori"
+ Coconut water is also used as an intravenous fluid...The coconut water is sterile until punctured.
+ Shells are cut and used as shirt buttons...
+ Fiber from the husk is used as brushes...
+ Fiber from the husk is also used as calk in canoes...
+ Fiber from the husk is used as potting compost...
+ Frond is woven as fishing baskets known as guagua'
+ Frond is woven as carry baskets or purse for beetlenut and other items...
+ Trunk is dugged in to make canoes...
+ Coconut Oil has been used as a direct replacement for diesel oil...
+ Dried half coconut used as buffers or sqeegee...to buff floors...
+ Trunk used to make furnitures...
+ Trunks hallowed out to make drums...
+ Dried half coconuts used as brushes....
+ Leaflet midribs make cooking skewers....
+ Leaflet midribs used as kindling arrows...
+ Dried fibers shredded and woven into fishing strings...
+ Dried half shell used as ceremonial bra for women...
+ Coconut shells used to make assorted jewelry...
+ Coconut leaves are burned and harvesting the ashes as lime...
