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Health Effects and Value of Virgin Coconut Oil
Virgin coconut oil is not new. It's preparation and curative properties were known to these Ayurvedic medicine practitioners of India who passed on this knowledge to our great grand parents by Indian traders who came to the Philippine Islands long before Magellan even planned his voyage of discovery. In the 1980's with the discovery of research findings of several investigators, the manu health benefits and curative properties of coconut oil were revealed. Virgin coconut oil with its superior physical qualities entered the market in 2004 and has been used for the cure for skin ailments. Chronic sufferers dissatisfied with conventional and other expensive therapies tried coconut oil and had been able to find relief.
Coconut oil is known to be anti-viral, ant-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-protozoal. There were experiments and testimonials made that warts fall off after being treated by topical application of coconut oil and leaves the skin clean a direct action that it may have killed the papova virus. Genital herpes and Conjunctivis similarly heal quickly on local application of coconut oil. Lice have been exterminates by coconut oil, The anti-microbial efficacy of coconut oil strongly indicates a presence of monoglycerides of MCFAs in oil. There are no free fatty acids in good coconut oils, only the monoglycerides remain as the most likely cause of coconut oil's anti microbial efficacy.
In terms of anti fungal activity, coconut oil when applied to the skin is rapidly absorbed into the dermal cells within 2 to 3 minutes and leaves the skin soft and smooth without oiliness. Any viral or fungal activity or infection is cured by the application repeated several times a day. Ringworm or tinea cased by various fungi can be rapidly cured by the topical application of coconut oil itself. It had been also tested that patients with psoriasis had been treated with coconut oil topically to relieve scaling, cracking and infection . With VCO, severe symptoms of psoriasis lesions covering 75% of the body has been cut down to 3% completely controlling infections, itching and scaling to make the skin look normal.
Reference: The Truth about Coconut Oil : Drugstore in a Bottle : Dr.Conrado Dayrit M.D. Anvil Publishing, 2005.