KING COCONUT (THE MAGICAL WATER )

 

King Coconut is a type of Coconut which native to Sri Lanka. It is a popular fruit in the world, and it has many benefits. Scientific Name is Cocos nucifera var. aurantiaca. King Coconut water has sweet taste. King Coconut is an orange colour coconut and Sri Lankan people called it as “Thembili”.

King coconut has liquid edible endosperm (King coconut water) and solid endosperm which is called kernel. King coconut kernel is a delicate spongy material which is rich in antioxidants, flavonoids and phytochemicals.

King coconut water is nutritional beverage which contains sugar, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. King Coconut water is a perfect drink that helps to keep human body rehydrated. Also, it can delay exhaustion. Further, it can be used as a refreshing drink to balance body electrolytes. King coconut is rich in Vitamin C, So it can be used as a dietary antioxidants. It directly influence on rapid intestinal absorption. Other than that, King coconut water helps to blood sugar restoration.

King coconut water has anti-aging effects to the skin. Magnesium maintains low blood sugar level against the type 2 Diabetes. It good at blood circulation in the kidneys. That causes to profuse diuresis. Further, king coconut water affect cardio protection. Therefore, King coconut water is identified as a medicine. It keeps the body away from diseases. And, develops internal functions of the human body. King coconut water is relaxation beverage in the sunny days. It has a cool effect that keep a healthy body. Further, King coconut water is used to make Vines. Also, it is added to various meals. Therefore, it is difficult to identify King coconut as a fruit. It is a medicine as well.

In Sri Lanka, King coconut is mostly cultivated in Kurunegala, Gampaha and Galle districts. Sri Lanka is a popular country for King coconut. King coconut water is exported as a beverage. There is a good demand from other countries.

Saffron

 

Saffron is made from stamens of Crocs flower (Crocus Sativus). Saffron is expensive and popular thing in the world. There are many benefits we can get from saffron. Mainly, saffron is used to increase the beauty and also, it is used as a medicine as well.

Crocus flower has only three saffron stamens. It needs 200,000 crocus flowers to made kilogram of saffron. Then, it needs huge human effort Therefore, saffron is very expensive. However, saffron has large number of benefits.

There are four anti oxides in saffron. They are Crosin, Crocetin, Safranal and Kaempferol. These ingredients repair damaged, irritated skin and keep youngest look of the human skin. Also, it can protect the skin from sunlight. Saffron has large portion of Vitamin C. Therefore, it gives soft smooth skin and remove dark spots and pimples. Moreover, Saffron can increase the hair growth and it can reduce the weight of the body.

Further, Saffron is used to reduce the high blood pressure and mental stress of the people. Recent analysis results found that saffron develops vision of the eyes and it helps to prevent from cancers.

There are many saffron treatments in the world. Indian and Middle East women drink milk with saffron. So, we can add saffron to our glass of milk or water. Also, saffron can be used as a cooking ingrediant. Some people add saffron to rice or milk rice, curd and yought to maintain a healthy life.

However, there is a limit to take saffron with our meals. If we take ,more than 1.5g of saffron per day, it can damage to the body. Therefore, it’s better to e saffron with consultation of the physician.

TYPE OF NERVOUS SYSTEMS IN ANIMALS

   

         During the course of evolution, nervous systems have become more complex. This is largely because animals have become larger and more mobile, requiring more neurons than a sedentary animal. The most fundamental function of aa nervous system is,

• To receive a stimulus
• Transmission of a stimulus to a central “brain”
• Interpretation and analysis of the stimulus
• Proper response by effectors

                       with the evolution of a complex nervous system and bilateral symmetry, cephalization (formation of a head) has taken Place, and the ganglia in  the head became large enough to called a brain, which is the main nervous control center of the body.

there are several type of neural organization in the animal kingdom. In the unicellular from, the single cell functions both as receptor and effector, there are no structural specializations.

In the cnidarians (Coelenterates) specialized cell are found in the body which functions as neurons or nerve cells. These neurons are multipolar and non-myelinated and organized in the from of a diffused nerve net. This nerve network is located in the body wall (mesoglia)

In platyhelminthes a more complex nervous system basically resembling a ladder is present. In its basic from, a nerve ring or pair of cerebral ganglia is present in the anterior end of the body. The neurons of cerebral ganglia is present in the anterior end of the body. The neurons of this nervous system are non-myelinated. From this nerve ring two lateral solid nerve cords originate and passes towards the posterior end of the body. These two lateral nerve cords are connected by several transverse nerves which give a ladder like structure. Therefore platyhelminthes have a rudiment of a central nervous (brain and nerve cords) and peripheral nervous systems (transverse nerves). 

 

HIKKADUWA BEACH

Hikkaduwa seashore is one of the most beautiful beaches in Sri Lanka.This is a remarkable feature of the beautiful coral reefs and its enormous sea creatures
                                 Located about 100km away from Colombo, this beach is easy to watch and easy to get by train from Colombo

DUMBULLA CAVE TEMPLE

                     The Golden temple ( Dambulla  Cave Temple) of dambulla is the largest well preserved and sacred cave temple site in Sri lanka. The site location in the central port of the Sri lanka at distance of 142Km from the Eastern port of Colombo. 72Km from North of kandy. It is believed that when King Vatta Gamini was fleeing from his enemies in the 1st Century BC, he was sheltered by ascetic monks who lived in these caves. The caves further, enlarged by King Nissankamall in the12th century with five temples built in to them. The Dambulla cave temple has 153 Buddha statues, 4 statues of Other gods including the Hindu Gods, Vishnu and Ganesh and 3 statues of the Kings who ruled Sri Lanka in the ancient times. The 5 important caves of the temple have been transformed in to shrine rooms, Consisting of Buddha statues, Mural paintings and statues of hindu details and Sri Lankan Kings. The Golden Buddha statue is of particular significance rising to a height of 100ft. The work towards the construction of the Golden Buddha statue on March 6, 1998 and installed after three years on Vesak full moon day that fell on may 6,2001 amidst rituals performed by the religious priests.

GALLE DUTCH FORT

                           Galle is the main town of Galle District in Southern Province in Sri Lanka. The Galle Dutch Fort is located in Galle town. It  is the largest Dutch Fort in Sri Lanka. Galle Fort was built first in 1588 by the Porthuguese and then expansively fortified by the Dutch during the 17th Century form 1648 on wards. It has area of 52ha. inside the walls defended by 14 bastions. The northern fortified gate, protected by a drawbridge and a diteh, bear the date 1669. During the 18th century, protected by sea wall finished in 1729, the city reached full development. The fort of Galle was handed over to the English only on 23rd February 1796, one week after the surrender of Colombo. Dutches made a gate put in between the moon bastion and the sun bastion, a lighthouse installed on the untrcht bastion, and a tower erected for the jublilee of Queen Victoria in 1883.

BEST PLASE TO VISIT IN SRI LANKA

• Kandy - Temlpe of the Tooth
• Dambulla - Cove Temple
• Bentota and Beruwala Beech
• Sigiriya Fort
• Nuwara Eliya
• Yala National Park
• Anuradhapura Ancient City
• Colombo
• Kumana Bird Paradise
• Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
• Sinharaja Rainforst
• Arugam Bay
• Trincomale
• Galle- Fort
• Hikkaduwa Beach

BEE AND FLOWERS

             Karl Frich (1886-1982) was an Austrian zoologist who studied how bees communicate with other. In 1973 he received a Nobel Prize for his work on animal behavior.

             The sent from a flower that has produced nectar through the air. It may stimulate the receptor cell of a honey bee and the insect flies towards it. As it get closer, the bee uses its eyes to find the flower, its eyes are sensitive to ultraviolet light. This make some of the pale markings we see in normal light stand out more distinctly to help the bee identify the flower. Some of the markings are lines running down the inside of petal. They are called honey guides and direct the bee towards the nectar.

             

Rabindranath Tagore

                Rabindranath Tagore is the greatest writer of modern indian literture, bengali poet, novelist, educator, and an early advocate of independence for India . Tagore wan the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. Two years later he dered it in 1919 as a protest against the massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators.
   Tagore's influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern indian was enormous, but his reputation in West as a mystic has perhaps misled his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic of colonialism.
                                        Rabindranath Tagore was born in kolkota into a wealthy and prominent family. His father was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a religious reformer and scholar.

RESPIRATORY STRUCTURES IN ANIMALS

                           The simplest respiratory is surface, is the body covering. You may have noticed that some animals are small and shaped in a way that allow the body surface of the animal to be the gas exchange surface. However, as animals, as animals become bigger and complex their body surface to volume ratio gets decreased. Therefore, gaseous exchange through their body surface by simple diffusion become inefficient. Thus, s