Coconut water 2012. Although substituting coconut water for saline is not recommended by physicians today, it was a common practice during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The Documentation Center of Cambodia cited the practice of allowing untrained nurses to administer green coconut water during the Pol Pot regime as a crime against humanity. Coconut water has been used in the folk medicine practices of Jamaica for such uses as the treatment of diarrhea. Coconut water Coconut water, less commonly coconut juice, is the clear liquid inside coconuts (fruits of the coconut palm). In early development, it serves
Bush coconut pick them and crack them open with a rock. The Arrernte call the insect angure. Bush coconut The Bush coconut, or bloodwood apple, is an Australian bush tucker food, often eaten by Aborigines of Central Australia. The bush coconut is, in fact, a combination of plant and animal: an adult female scale insect, "Cystococcus pomiformis", lives in a gall induced on a bloodwood eucalypt ("Corymbia terminalis"). The gall looks like a small, knobbly woody fruit, ranging in size from a golf ball to a tennis ball, with a milky white flesh inside upon which the insect and its male offspring