Coconut & its un-kown gynaecological facts!

Coconut , the fruit edible in its  stage from unripe giving coconut water which afterwards turns to coconut. 

it has other names like nariyal in hindi, naral in marathi ,narikel in sanskrit & Cocos nucifera as a latin name.

Family - Palmae 

 Properties - 

Rasa - Madhur

Virya - Sheeta

Vipaka - Madhur

Guna - Guru , Snigdha

Chemical Constituents -

glucose , protein

Uses -

it is used in many forms as coconut water, coconut milk, coconut oil, coconut.

it has madhur rasa.( sweet taste) & sheet virya showing its importance for use in summer.

it is mutral & mutravirajaniya so can be used in mutrakruccha ( difficulty in mituration)

when there is pakva phala ; it turns into ushna guna leading to act as vajikaran & aartavjanan so it can be used in vajikaran yog & kashtartava ( dysmenorrhoea) respectively.

note - this post is written for study purpose .

ref - ayurvedic textbooks.