The bible talks about the tree of life that someone would eat its fruits and be alive forever. And this could be the same tree which the scientists have discovered.
The scientists say that they have discovered the COCONUT tree to be the TREE OF LIFE. The coconut tree is highly nutritious and rich in fibre, vitamins and minerals.
The coconut tree is classified as a functional food because it provides many health benefits beyond its nutritional content. Coconut tree possess healing properties that are far beyond that of any other dietary oil and is extensively used in traditional medicine among Asians and people in the Pacific region.
Its palm is as highly valued as a source of food and medicine, thus the name “the tree of life.” In traditional medicine around the world coconut is used to treat wide variety of health problems like abscesses, asthma, baldness, bronchitis, bruises, burns, colds, constipation, cough, dropsy, dysentery, earache, fever, flue, gonorrhea, painful menstruation, kidney stones, nausea, scabies, scurvy, skin infections, sore throat, syphilis, toothache, tuberculosis, tumours, typhoid, ulcers and stomach upset.