KHASIAT MINYAK KELAPA DARA
1- Menyerupai lemak susu ibu.
2-Bagi ibu-ibu menyusukan anak, yang mengambil minyak kelapa dara sebagai sebahagian dari pemakanannya akan mendapati paras lauric asid dan capric asid bertambah secara ketara. (lihat keterangan terperinci dalam tajuk Kesan Pengambilan Minyak Kelapa Dara Pada Ibu-ibu Yang Menyusukan Anak)
3-Anti Oksida (Mencegah atau melambatkan cell mati)
4-Antivirus dan antibaktera.
Lauric asid dalam minyak kelapa dara adalah 'medium chain fatty asid' yang mempunyai tambahan fungsi yang amat berguna untuk membentuk monolaurin didalam tubuh manusia atau haiwan. Monolaurin adalah bersifat antiviral, antibakteria dan antiprotozoal.
Monoglyceride yang digunakan oleh tubuh manusia atau haiwan berperanan memusnahkan lapisan atau kelongsong lipid pada virus, seperti HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus, influenza, berbagai bakteria pathogen termasuk listeria monocytogenes dan heliobacter pylori, serta protozoa seperti giardia lamblia. Setengah kajian juga menunjukkan bahawa ia berfungsi sebagai antimikrobial.
Tindakan antiviral yang dikaitkan dengan monolaurin ialah ia mampu mencairkan lapisan lipid dan phospholipid pada kelongsong atau envelope virus yang menyebabkan kerosakan pada envelope virus berkenaan. Secara mudah, fatty asid dan monoglycerides menghasilkan kesan pemusnahan ialah dengan menghancurkan dua lapisan plasma membrane pada organism berkenaan.
Dari beberapa kajian dan penyelidikan mutakhir ini, telah membuktikan bahawa kesan antimikrobial monolaurin adalah berhubung kait dengan gangguan terhadap sebarang isyarat ke atas mekanisma cell organisma berkenaan untuk replikasi (replication
Jadual jenis-jenis "Lipid Coated Viruses"
Jenis | Deskripsi |
Virus | Human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 or HIV+ |
Virus | Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) |
Virus | Herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) |
Virus | Herpes viridae (all) |
Virus | Human lymphotropic viruses (type 1) |
Virus | Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) |
Virus | Visna virus |
Virus | Cytomegalovirus |
Virus | Epstein-Barr virus |
Virus | Influenza virus |
Virus | Leukemia virus |
Virus | Pneumonovirus |
Virus | Sarcoma virus |
Virus | Syncytial virus |
Virus | Rubeola virus |
Jadual jenis-jenis Lipid Coated Bacteria
Jenis | Dekripsi |
Bacterium | Listeria monocytogenes |
Bacterium | Helicobacter pylori (gram negative) |
Bacterium | Hemophilus influenzae (gram negative) |
5-Meningkatkan metabolisma tubuh manusia
Sebagai functional food, (functional food telah didefinasikan pada An ILSI NORTH AMERICA SPECIAL CONFERENCE) bererti ia adalah makanan yang membekalkan komponen untuk kesihatan mengatasi komponen untuk tenaga. Adalah dianggarkan sekitar 50 peratus kandungan fatty asid didalam minyak kelapa dara adalah terdiri dari lauric asid, dan 6 hingga 7 peratus kandungannya lagi adalah terdiri dari capric asid.
Lauric asid adalah 'medium chain fatty asid' yang mempunyai tambahan fungsi yang amat berguna untuk membentuk monolaurin didalam tubuh manusia atau haiwan. Monolaurin adalah bersifat antiviral, antibakteria dan antiprotozoal monoglyceride yang digunakan oleh tubuh manusia atau haiwan untuk memusnahkan lapisan atau kelongsong lipid pada virus, seperti HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus, influenza, berbagai bakteria pathogen termasuk listeria monocytogenes dan heliobacter pylori, serta protozoa seperti giardia lamblia. Setengah kajian juga menunjukkan bahawa ia berfungsi sebagai antimikrobial.
Sementara capric asid adalah juga jenis 'medium chain fatty asid' yang juga mempunyai kelebihan fungsi yang sama bila ia membentuk sebagai monocaprin di dalam tubuh manusia atau haiwan. Monocaprin juga telah menunjukkan kesan keupayaan sebagai antiviral terhadap HIV dan ia masih lagi dalam proses uji kaji terhadap kesannya keatas herpes simplex dan keberkesanan antibakterianya terhadap chlamydia. (Reuters, London June 29,1999).
Dr. Halldor Thormar, ahli sains Icelandic, telah membuktikan bahawa monolaurin yang berasal dari minyak kelapa dara , dapad membunuh virus jenis 'lipid coated DNA dan RNA, termasuk HIV dan virus herpes dan juga mikroorganism lain termasuk bakteria jenis gram positive. Ketika ini Dr. Halldor Thormar dan pasukannya merancang untuk meneruskan ujian fungsi serta kesan monocaprin terhadap chlamydia dan virus herpes simplex.
Sumber Rujukan: http://www.coconut-connections.com/hivandaids.htm
HIV / AIDS and Virgin Coconut Oil
By Brian Shilhavywww.coconutoil.com
©2001 Reprinted with permission of the author.
©2001 Reprinted with permission of the author.
"Initial trials have confirmed that coconut oil does have an anti-viral effect and can beneficially reduce the viral load of HIV patients", says Dr. Conrato S. Dayrit, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of the Philippines.
For full and complete information on research, recent publications, HIV/AIDS clinical trials, HIV/AIDS support protocols visit http://www.lauric.org/watson1.html
"A minimum of 50 ml of coconut oil would contain 20 to 25 grams of lauric acid, which indicates that the oil is metabolized in the body to release monolaurin which is an antibiotic and an antiviral agent. Among the saturated fatty acids, lauric acid has the maximum antiviral activity, he said.
Based on this research, the first clinical trial using monolaurin as monotherapy on some of the HIV patients was conducted recently. Dr. Dayrit's conclusions after the study: "This initial trial confirmed the anecdotal reports that coconut oil does have an anti-viral effect and can beneficially reduce the viral load of HIV patients.
The positive anti-viral action was seen not only with the monoglyceride of lauric acid but with coconut oil itself. This indicates that coconut oil is metabolized to monoglyceride forms of C-8, C-10, C- 12 to which it must owe its anti-pathogenic activity."
The entire results of Dr. Dayrit's study can be found here in PDF format.
"Health Oils from the Tree of Life (Nutritional and Health Aspects of Coconut Oil)" by Jon J. Kabara, PhD.
On July 19, 1995, Dr. Mary Enig, noted biochemist and nutritionist, was quoted in an article published in The HINDU, India’s National Newspaper as stating that coconut oil is converted by the body into “Monolaurin” a fatty acid with anti-viral properties that might be useful in the treatment of AIDS. The staff reporter for The HINDU wrote about Enig’s presentation at a press conference in Kochi and wrote the following:
“There was an instance in the US in which an infant tested HIV positive had become HIV negative. That it was fed with an infant formula with a high coconut oil content gains significance in this context and at present an effort was on to find out how the 'viral load' of an HIV infected baby came down when fed a diet that helped in the generation of Monolaurin in the body.”
The reporter commented on Enig’s observations that “Monolaurin helped in inactivating other viruses such as measles, herpes, vesicular stomatitis and Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and that research undertaken so far on coconut oil also indicated that it offered a certain measure of protection against cancer-inducing substances."
Enig stated in an article published in the Indian Coconut Journal, Sept., 1995 that Monolaurin, of which the precursor is lauric acid, disrupted the lipid membranes of envelope viruses and also inactivated bacteria, yeast and fungi. She wrote: “Of the saturated fatty acids, lauric acid has greater antiviral activity than either caprylic acid (C-10) or myristic acid (C-14). The action attributed to Monolaurin is that of solubilising the lipids ..in the envelope of the virus causing the disintegration of the virus envelope.”
"Coconut: In Support of Good Health in the 21st Century" by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., F.A.C.N.
Dr. Mary Enig has also written a book entitled "Nutrients and Foods in AIDS".
In a July 1997 newsletter entitled "Keep Hope Alive" an interview with Chris Dafoe was recorded. Chris Dafoe of Cloverdale, IN who, based on his lab numbers, thought the end was near in September, 1996. His HIV viral load was over 600,000, CD4 count was 10 and CD8 at 300.
He prepaid his funeral and decided to take his last vacation in the jungles of South America with an Indian tribe in the Republic of Surinam. Around October 14, 1996, he began eating daily a dish of cooked coconut which was prepared by the local Indians. By Dec. 27th, 1996, a mere 2 and 1/2 months later, his viral load was at non-detectable levels and he had gained 32 lbs and was feeling great. He had some other people he knew with HIV try using coconuts in their diet, and they experienced the same results. The entire interview can be found here.
Recently the PATA International-Potato and Products Aid Alliance To Africa committed to purchase and send several hundred container loads of Virgin Coconut Oil to Africa for distribution among HIV - AIDS sufferers. They state:
"AIDS is the modern day Black Plague. Millions have all ready died from this disease, leaving behind millions of orphans. Millions more will follow in death, unless a low cost way of controlling this illness is found quickly.
Several long term world studies sponsored by various health organizations have found that the high content of lauric acid in unrefined coconut oil can prolong the lives of AIDS patients by dissolving the covering of the virus itself. This same action has been found effective against other infectious, tropical based diseases as well."
If the results from the smaller studies duplicate themselves in the clinics in Africa, PATA intends to extend the distribution of Virgin Coconut oil in Africa.
Click here and then scroll down for Testimonials of AIDS sufferers using coconut oil in their treatment.
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