Yes, coconut water from the green coconut has been used in wartime's since is
roughly  isotonic and normally sterile.
But please, coconut water (milk and cream are many from cobra, the white
flesh)
is no more artificial than the real thing . . .blood plasma.
Cheers
Jim Darley
ProSciTech

On Saturday, July 08, 2000 1:32 AM, Smith, Susie [SMTP:SSmith@cytologix.com]
wrote:
> Rumor has it that the liquid inside of young coconuts can be used for
> artificial plasma.
>
> Susie Smith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bren@ahabs.wisc.edu [mailto:bren@ahabs.wisc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 6:11 PM
> To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: Recipe of Artificial Plasma
>
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Does anyone have some experience about recipe of artificial plasma to test
> >biomaterials? Any
> >information is appreciated.
> >
> >Best Regards
> >
> >Bo
>
>