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The Healing Properties of the Coconut Juice

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I have been somehow healed by drinking lots of coconut water or juice. Back when I was actively recuperating, I drank the juice practically everyday for its "probiotic flora" to help my digestion. My coconut juice concoction consist of the juice of simmered pandan leaves and some honey. The pandan leaves a refreshing aroma that truly gives you that healthy drinking feeling. It is said that coconut juice acts as "a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood. It's the fluid of life, so to speak." In fact, during the Pacific War of 1941-45, both sides in the conflict regularly used coconut water - siphoned directly from the nut - to give emergency plasma trasfusions to wounded soldiers. Most coconut water is still consumed fresh in tropical coastal areas - once exposed to air, the liquid rapidly loses most of its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, and begins to ferment. Coconut Water is Mor