COCONUT OIL IN HEALTH AND DISEASE: ITS AND MONOLAURIN’S POTENTIAL AS CURE FOR HIV/AIDS*

Folkloric and Ayurvedic writings are replete with accounts of the efficacy of the coconut for many ailments- from the cure of wounds, burns, ulcers, lice infestations to dissolution of kidney stones(l) and treatment of choleraic dysenteries(2). The people of South Asia and the Pacific also loo