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Crude drug name | Market name | Nariwal (Gola) |
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| Formal name | Narikela | |
Other names Tips！ | Gola, Copra (T), Dab, Narikel (B), Nariyal, Gola (H), Tengu (K), Tengu, Narikelam (M), Kobbari, Tenkaya (Te), Thengai, Kopparai (Ta) | |
| English name | Coconut Copra | |
| Original plant name | Cocos nucifera Linn., Coconut Copra | |
| Family name | Arecaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | kernel |
| Collection information | India, New Delhi , Hans Raj & Sons | |
| Collection date | 1991/05/07 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba, et al. | |
| TMPW No. | 12402 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Narikela, Coconut Copra | ||
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| Synonyms | Nagavrksa, Nirarandhra, Trilocana, Latavrksa, Daksinatyaya, Cuncika, Kurcakesara, Kariraphalika, Tunga, Langali, Coca, Drdhaphala, Kurcasirsaka, Skandhaphala, Trnaraja, Sadaagalah, Rasaphala, Sutunga, Kurcasekhara, Dridhanili, Nilataru, Mangalya, Uccataru, Trnaraja, Skandhataru, Daksinatyaya, Dururuha, Tryambakaphala, Drdhaphala | |||
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| Original plant name | Cocos nucifera Linn. | |||
| Family name | Araceae | |||
| Used part | Kernal, Roots, Inflorescence, Oil | |||
| Distribution area | Coastal areas of India. Cultivated in large scale in South India, especially in Kerala, Tamilnadu and Andamans. | |||
| Remarks | Extensively cultivated. | |||
| Common uses | Kernel is sweet, cooling, oleaginous, indigestible, appetizer, aphrodisiac, laxative and tonic. It is used in bronchitis, leprosy, thirst, biliousness, diseases of the blood. Oil from the fruits forms the basis for several ointments and medicinal preparations. Dried fruit (copra/kernel) improves the taste. Milk from fruit/kernel is cooling and useful in tumours/tumors. | |||
| Therapeutic uses | Daha (burning), Sitapitta (a kind of allergy), Pinasa (running nose), Sosa (emaciation), Ksataksaya (injury, emaciation), Ama (indigestion), Chardi (vomiting), Atisara (leucorrhoea/leucorrhea), Krcchra (urinary disorders) | |||
| Chemical constituent | Copra contains enzymes: invertin, oxydase and catalase. Copora/kernel contains 64.5% oil and 6.5% moisture. Commercial copras contain: lauric, myristic and fatty acids. | |||
| Pharmacological effect | Ration containing 20% of coconut oil has retarding effect on the progress of experimental tuberculosis in albino mice. Hydrogenated coconut oil and the fatty acids of the coconut oil exert an inhibiting influence on the causation of liver tumours by p-dimethyl amino azobenzene. | |||
| Medical system | Ayurveda (Traditional Indian medicine) | |||
| Traditional concept | Rasa (Taste) | Madhura (Sweet) | ||
| Virya (Potency) | Sita (Cold) | |||
| Guna (Quality) | Snigdha (Unctuous), Laghu (Light) | |||
| Vipaka (Post digestive taste) | Madhura (Sweet) | |||
| Karma (General action) | Durjaram (difficult to digest), Vistambhi (creating blocks), Brmhana (nourishing), Balya (strengthening), Vrsya (aphrodisiac) | |||
| Dosakarma (Action on dosa) | Decreases Vata Pitta | |||
| Dhatukarma(Action on body tissues) | Asra (blood), Mamsa (mascular tissue) | |||
| Mala (Action on excretory mechanism) | Vastisodhana (diuretic) | |||
| Avayava (Action on organ) | Hrdya (good for heart) | |||
| Traditional usage | 1. Four fruits of Narikela (coconut), slightly removing their outer rind, are boiled in a vessel or water until it fully evaporates. In the night water of one coconut should be taken. It alleviates even chronic fever. 2. Parched grain flour mixed with equal sugar and taken with coconut water alleviates severe acidity, palpitation of heart, thirst, fainting, giddiness etc. 3. Rice kept inside coconut until it is decomposed, then is applied locally. It removes cracks even severe in feet. 4. In hemicrania, one should take milk with sugar or coconut water or cold water or ghee or snuffing with later too. 5. If one takes seeds of Trapusa (Cucumis sativus) or flowers of coconut with milk one becomes free of gravels within few days. 6. Coconut water mixed with Hing (Ferula assa-foetida) acts as anthelmintic. 7. Old coconut promotes healing of wound. 8. To check vomiting, one should take Kharjura (date) fruits, Narikela, Draksa (grapes) or Badari (Ziziphus mauritiana) fruits. | |||
| Formulation | Narikerakhanda, Narikela lavana, Narikelamrta | |||
| Comments | Tender coconut pacifies Pitta and Pitta type of fever. It that is ripe, it is very heavy, increases Pitta, increases burning, blocking. Coconut water is cool, good for heart, increasing reproductive tissue, light, good for thirst, good for Pitta, sweet and diuretic. When it is old, it is difficult to digest, heavy and cold. Fresh one is mild laxative. Milk is strengthening, appetising, heavy. It is sweet, unctuous, aphrodisiac, slightly hot, good for Vata, Kapha, intestinal tumours/tumors, cough. Flowers are cold, good for diarrhoea/diarrhea with blood, bleeding disorders, diabetic types, spermatorrhoea/spermatorrhea. Juice of the flowers is very heavy, aphrodisiac. If it is sour it creates Kapha Pitta and facifies Vata and Krmi. Oil is aphrodisiac, heavy, nourishing, good for Vata, Pitta, urinary disorders, diabetic types, respiratory disorders, good for hair, itching, skin diseases and Kapha disorders. | |||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | [2] Indian Medicinal Plants - A Compendium of 500 species, Varier, P.S., Orient Longman Ltd. Chennai (Madras) Vol. 2 (Repr.1997), pp 146-152. Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants, 1956. Chopra, R.N., Nayar, S.L. and Chopra, I.C., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi. - New Edition (1996) National Institute Science Communication; Supplement pp 72-73. Indian Medicinal Plants (Second Edition), Vols. 1-5, 1993. Kirtikar, K.R. and Basu. B.D., Periodical Experts Book Agency, Delhi Vol. 4, pp 2581-2582. Plants in Ayurveda (A Compendium of Botanical and Sanskrit Names), 1997. Abdul Kareem, M., Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore 453. Dravyagunavijnana, Vols. 1-5, reprint 1998. Sharma, P.V., Chowkhambha Bharati Academy, Varanasi Vol. 2, pp 117-120. Classical uses of Medicinal Plants, 1996. Sharma, P.V., Chaukhambha Visvabharati, Varanasi p 208. | ||
| Last renewal date | 2023/12/13 | |||
