Coconut Oil (Cocos Nucifera) – CARRIER OIL

Description ShareTweetPinLinkedInPrintEmail (*CAUTION: This Oil is NOT safe for ingestion or internal use.  For external use only.) Coconut Oil (Cocos Nucifera) COMMON NAME :  Coconut SCIENTIFIC NAME :  Cocos Nucifera OTHER NAMES :  Coconut Palm, Canoe Plant, Coco, Coco-da-Bahia, Coconut of the Beach, Niyog, Ranedj, Tree of Life FAMILY :  Arecaceae ASSOCIATIONS & CORRESPONDENCES :   Element: Water Planet: Moon Day: Saturday Direction: West Zodiac Sign: Gemini Chakra: 7th Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) Energy: Yin Gender: Feminine Tarot: Nine of Cups Spirit Animal: Crab Candle Color: White, Purple Sabbat or Holiday: Ostara / the Spring Equinox (btw. March 19-23) Deity or God / Goddess Association: Lakshmi, Murugan, Shri, Hina (Sina)   Parts Used:  Fruit Description: Drinkable coconut water is the liquid inside green coconuts. Coconut milk is produced by grating the mature coconut meat, mixing it with water, and then squeezing. Coconut meat can be eaten raw or cooked. Dried coconut fruit meat is crushed to obtain coconut oil, which is used in cooking and personal care products. Coconut meat, milk and oil are used in numerous food products around the world. Coconut oil is often used for making cosmetics, soaps, and body and massage oils. It is highly emollient, hydrating and softens skin. It is widely used to ease dry skin and symptoms of dermatitis, eczema, and psoriasis. Coconut oil contains properties that are anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-parasitic. Coconut oil can also help dry and frizzy hair because it’s rich in fatty acids that nourish hair and scalp, and is easily absorbed. It can help maintain a healthy scalp microbiome which may help with dandruff. It can help protect hair from damage caused by heat and help prevent split ends. To help moisturize the hair, some coat dry hair with coconut oil about an hour before washing, then rinse it out after shampooing. It can also be lightly applied to wet hair after washing for added moisture, softness, and shine. Coconut husks and shells are used for fuel and are a source of charcoal. Dried half coconut shells with the husk are used to buff floors. Fresh husks are sometimes used as a dish or body sponge. Half coconut shells are used in theatre by striking together to create the sound of horse’s hoofbeats. Fibers from coconut husks are used to make ropes, mats, doormats, brushes, sacks, brooms, and as stuffing for mattresses. The long, thin and wood-like veins stripped away from the green of leaves are tied together to make brooms and brushes. Leaves are used to make baskets and roofing thatch. The timber from coconut tree trunks is used for building small bridges and huts. The hollowed out trunk is used to make drums, containers, and small canoes. Frayed pieces of coconut tree roots are sometimes used as a toothbrush. The roots are also used in traditional folk medicine for dysentery. Coconut oil is a carrier oil and does not require dilution. Historical Uses: emollient, moisturizing, dry skin, dermatitis, irritated skin, itching, skin rashes, acne, eczema, psoriasis, staph infection, anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-parasitic, dysentery, dry hair, dandruff Mystical Attributes: Coconuts have long been a spiritual representation of a person’s ego, the tough and resilient outer shell as the rough protection and walls built up around our inner selves. Breaking the hard shell is symbolic of letting go of pride and arrogance. Coconut milk and oil can be used in ritual related to purifying and letting go of the past. Coconut shells make nice vessels for boundaries potions. The coconut has religious significance in South Asian cultures, where it is used in rituals of Hinduism, and it forms the basis of wedding and worship rituals in Hinduism. Used in weddings, coconuts are gifted as a symbol of purity, fertility, prosperity, and blessing. In Cambodia, coconut flowers are also used sometimes in wedding ceremonies. Coconut has long been used in chastity spells, as well as in protection rituals. A coconut can be halved, drained of its juice, filled with appropriate protective herbs and sealed shut, then buried to protect your property. Hang a whole coconut in the home for protection. In the northern Philippines, as an offering to the deceased and one’s ancestors, the Ilocano people recite a prayer to the dead and fill two halved coconut shells with cooked sweet rice and place a halved boiled egg on top of it. In India, fishermen give offerings of coconut to the seas and rivers at the beginning of a new fishing season in hopes of bountiful catches. For hopes of successful completion of any new activity, Hindus often break a coconut to ensure blessings from the gods. In the foothills of the temple town of Palani India, coconuts are broken at a place marked to worship Murugan for the Ganesha. Thousands are broken every day, with some breaking as many as 108 at a time per the prayer. For Mardi Gras parade attendees in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the most treasured souvenirs is a coconut hand-decorated by the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club and thrown from a Zulu float. Mystical Intentions:  weddings, chastity, home protection, funeral and burial rites, hunting and fishing, success, prosperity, egoism, pride, arrogance, narcissism, selfishness, humility, boundaries, purification, letting go Taste & Smell:  (*CAUTION: This Coconut Oil is not for ingestion or internal use.) Refined coconut oil has a very mild, almost undetectable, flavor and aroma. Virgin, or pure, coconut oil has a light tropical distinctive coconut flavor and aroma. Botany, Cultivation & Harvesting:  Coconut trees are members of the palm family that grow in frost-free, warm and humid tropical areas around the world, USDA Zones 10-12, native to the tropical islands in the western Pacific. In the United States, Coconut trees will grow in southern Florida, the southern tip of Texas, Hawaii, and the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. It does not grow well in southern California or Bermuda. They quickly establish along ocean shores, partly due to their ability to float in the sea for months and still germinate, and even thrive in salt spray, floods, and hurricanes. It is highly salt tolerant and thrives in humid coastal lowlands and seashores, needing full sun, minimum temperature of 64°F to produce fruit (a mean daily temperature of 54-55°F every day of the year), mean annual rainfall of 39 inches, and no or very little overhead canopy. They grow best at elevations below 1,000 feet. They grow to between 50-100 feet tall and 20-40 feet wide and are the perfect tree to prevent beach erosion. Coconut trees are a single-trunk palm with a branchless, often curved, light gray trunk which is swollen at the base and topped by a crown of pinnate, downward-arching, green fronds (to 15-20 feet long). Fragrant yellow flowers in elongated clusters to 4 feet long only appear in tropical climates where they bloom on and off throughout the year. The palm produces both the female and male flowers on the same inflorescence, the female flowers much larger than the male flowers. Female flowers are followed by single-seeded coconuts (to 14”), which are technically drupes, not nuts, weighing about 3 pounds when full size. Each coconut has a fibrous husk which surrounds a woody shell containing the coconut meat, milk and oil. The coconut palm tree has neither a taproot or root hairs, but a fibrous root system. The root system consists of an abundance of thin roots about ½ inch wide that grow outward from the plant near the surface. Only a few of the roots penetrate deep into the soil for stability. Decayed roots are replaced regularly as the tree grows new ones. Coconut trees can be grown in containers (sow seed in the spring) in a soil-based potting mixture with grit or sand added. Lethal yellowing is a serious disease which has killed thousands of coconut palms in Florida. It is spread by a leaf hopper. Injections help stabilize plants but will not cure the disease. The coconut palm is also damaged by the larvae of many butterfly and moth species which feed on it. The coconut leaf beetle feeds on young leaves and damages both seedlings and mature trees. The fruit may also be damaged by eriophyid coconut mites which infest and devastate plantations. Other insect pest problems include palm leaf skeletonizer, aphids, nematodes, rhinoceros beetle, red palm weevil, spider mites, coconut leaf caterpillar, and scale. The two most common methods of harvesting coconuts are by climbing and pole. Although extremely dangerous and presenting risk of severe injury or death from falling, manually climbing the trees is the most popular method. This is and should only be performed by expert skilled climbers. Some use systems of pulleys and ropes, and use spikes attached to their feet or legs. Some others also use ladders, or hydraulic elevators. In some locations, coconuts are simply collected when they fall to the ground. Contraindications & Toxicity: In some people, proteins from coconut may cause allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. The United States Food and Drug Administration requires disclosure of coconut as a tree nut with potential allergenicity.     Sources: https://spiritartsandherbs.com/sources **IMPORTANT INFORMATON: Products are sold as curio items for entertainment purposes only and based upon historical and magical uses.  We do not imply or guarantee that any items provide specific abilities, powers, outcomes, remedies, or treatments. 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