The text I put in bold is fascinating to me. The information is actually in the first link in this thread, but I missed it. I wanted more details when I found the information with further reading, on my own.
"Coconut Water: .... the watery fluid contained within immature nuts. .... 5-month old nut will yield about two glassfuls. .... is clear, colorless and contains about two tablespoons of sugar along with vitamins and minerals.
It is so pure and sterile that in World War II both American and Japanese doctors found that in emergencies they could use the coconut water in place of sterile glucose for I.V. solutions. ....
http://faculty.ucc.edu/biology-ombre...conut_palm.htm
It is still used for that when needed in certain countries.
"Medical resources routinely used for intravenous hydration .... resuscitation of critically ill patients .... limited in remote regions of the world. .... faced with these shortages, physicians have had to improvise with the available resources .... We report the successful use of coconut water as a short-term intravenous hydration ...."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10674546
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