Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.44.13
633.44.13 Lodoicea maldivica
English: Nux absurda; Cocos maldivica; Sea coconut.
French: coconut de mer.
Content: alkaloids, arecoline; tenaline.
Culture: used in the East as a masticatory for sweetening the breath and hardening the gums; marriage and divorce ceremonies; symbol of the home.
Body
Nervous: apoplexy; epilepsy; paralysis, painful; fainting.
Stomach: vomiting.
Abdomen: colic.