Coconut water can be used for a variety of medical purposes, one of which is intravenous rehydration. A 2000 report tells of a stroke patient, in the Solomon Islands, who was too ill to drink or use a nasal tube but was successfully rehydrated with a coconut-water IV, when no other fluids were available. Emergency coconut IVs were reportedly used by the British and Japanese during World War II and they have been clinically tested on humans several times to see how well they would be tolerated. However, only coconut water, the liquid found inside a young coconut, is used and not coconut milk, which is made from grated coconut meat. Coconut water cannot actually replace blood plasma as chemical analysis indicates that it is closer in makeup to intracellular fluid. Tender coconut water is usually sterile and, when mixed with plasma, it behaves like saline solution.
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