Moringa Oleifera - one of nature’s best-kept health and nutrition secrets
Boosts energy levels and increases vitality
Increases focus, mental clarity and stamina
Provides an abundance of all-natural anti-aging nutrients and minerals
Boosts the immune system
Promotes healthier blood naturally
Helps to maintain healthier blood sugar levels within a normal range
Helps to maintain healthier blood pressure levels within a normal range
Assists in reaching and maintaining an appropriate body weight
Improves mobility and flexibility
Aids with joint pain
Recover faster recovery and harder training
Increases overall well-being
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What is Moringa? For centuries, people in Asia and Africa have had access to moringa oleifera, one of nature’s most nutritious foods. Often called the Tree of Life or Mother’s Best Friend, it provides families–infants, children, parents, and grandparents–with an abundance of minerals, vitamins, calcium, proteins, and beneficial antioxidants and amino acids. This generous and bountiful plant is life sustaining.
Today you can experience the same benefits thanks to our line of Moringa products. Our Moringa capsules, powders, oils, and seeds are sourced from eco-conscious farms around the world, and are 100% natural, pesticide, herbicide, and chemical-free, so your entire family can enjoy the rewards of a healthy, nutrient dense, whole food supplement.
Our moringa capsules, powder, tea and extract are made from pure moringa leaves, which are know to offer an array of health benefits. We choose only the moringa leaf, the nutritional storehouse of the plant and not other, less nutritional portions of the plant.
Moringa Health Benefits
Moringa is so safe; it can be consumed by children and nursing mothers. Students, athletes, working professionals and the elderly will all benefit from over 90 bio-nutrients delivered to the body, to improve clarity, focus, and concentration.
A healthy mind needs to be supported by a nourished body. Our quality Moringa products help support healthy blood sugar levels and provide nutritional support for diabetics. They aid in eliminating toxins, stimulating digestion, and strengthening the immune system.
So many benefits from a single plant! No wonder Moringa oleifera is called nature’s most nutritious super food!
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Is any other food or drink reported to have as many health benefits as Moringa tea? The Indian have known about the medicinal benefits of moringa tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. One historian writer states that Moringa tea has been used as a medicine in India for at least 4,000 years.
Today, scientific research in both Asia and the west is providing hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking moringa tea. For example, in 1994 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published the results of an epidemiological study indicating that drinking moringa tea reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly sixty percent. University of Purdue researchers recently concluded that a compound in moringa tea inhibits the growth of cancer cells. There is also research indicating that drinking moringa tea lowers total cholesterol levels, as well as improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol.
To sum up, here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking moringa tea is reputed to be helpful: cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol levels, cariovascular disease, , infection, impaired immune function
The secret of moringa tea lies in the fact it is rich in catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). EGCG is a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. It has also been effective in lowering LDL cholesterol levels, and inhibiting the abnormal formation of blood clots. The latter takes on added importance when you consider that thrombosis (the formation of abnormal blood clots) is the leading cause of heart attacks and stroke.
Links are being made between the effects of drinking moringa tea and the "French Paradox." For years, researchers were puzzled by the fact that, despite consuming a diet rich in fat, the French have a lower incidence of heart disease than Americans. The answer was found to lie in red wine, which contains resveratrol, a polyphenol that limits the negative effects of smoking and a fatty diet. In a 1997 study, researchers from the University of Kansas determined that EGCG is twice as powerful as resveratrol, which may explain why the rate of heart disease among Japanese men is quite low, even though approximately seventy-five percent are smokers.
Why don't other teas have similar health-giving properties? What sets moringa tea apart is the way it is processed. Moringa tea leaves are freeze dried, which prevents the EGCG compound from being oxidized. By contrast, black and oolong tea leaves are made from fermented leaves, which results in the EGCG being converted into other compounds that are not nearly as effective in preventing and fighting various diseases.
New evidence is emerging that moringa tea can even help dieters. In November, 1999, the AmericanJournal of Clinical Nutrition published the results of a study at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Researchers found that men who were given a combination of caffeine and moringa tea extract burned more calories than those given only caffeine or a placebo.
Moringa tea can even help prevent tooth decay! Just as its bacteria-destroying abilities can help prevent food poisoning, it can also kill the bacteria that causes dental plaque. Meanwhile, skin preparations containing moringa tea - from deodorants to creams - are starting to appear on the market.
Gives you a huge range of important vitamins and minerals
Effectively combats free radicals
Enhances your circulation
Provides extremely high degree of fibers
Detoxifies your body of toxins
Improves your immune system
Gives you beautiful-looking skin
Helps prevent arterosclerosis
Reduces inflammation
Increases your sexual drive &
Enhances sexual function
Combats a wide range of different cancers
Enhances the working of your heart
Improves your vision
Helps reverse the aging process
We enjoy growing fresh, natural herbs and trees which provide wonderful things for your body, health and peace of mind. That's why we grow the finest Moringa in the world. And carefully prepare it for our friends and family. It's absolutely remarkable.... this fresh, green herb is known and used all over the world.... except in America.... until now. The amazing things Moringa does for your health -- including long lasting energy -- are reflected in people's personal experiences.... as well as in university studies.
Heart-warming stories about how Moringa is being used to help people span the globe.... from malnourished children in Africa to people with AIDS in America. And one of the most wonderful things about Moringa is the way it's bringing together good people around the world.... to spread the benefits of Moringa to everyone who needs it.
· From the report on “Analysis of Leaf Powder for Nutritional Composition, July 17, 1998 by Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association in conjunction with the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester and Church World Service, affiliate of the National Council of Churches
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The Power of Moringa
Moringa is known by some as nature's energy Miracle Tree, a tree that is packed with so much nutrition that some call it one of the most powerful foods on the planet. The fruit is 100% natural. Moringa is a tree that is filled with antioxidants, amino acids and essential fatty acids.
The antioxidants that are in Moringa can reverse the signs of aging because they have ten times more antioxidants than red grapes and 30 times more than red wine. Moringa also heals and restores cardiovascular and digestive health as it is full of monounsaturated (healthy) fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols. It is also responsible for offering the minerals and essential amino acids that are essential for proper muscle contraction and regeneration. Celebrities have even attested to the wonders of this versatile fruit.
Moringa contains a fatty acid that is similar to the one in olive oil and is also rich in monounsaturated oleic acid. In case you are wondering why oleic acid is important, let me tell you why. It helps omega-3 fish oils penetrate the cell membrane which helps to make cell membranes suppler. Moringa will boost energy levels naturally, improve digestive functions, induce healthy and sound sleep, provide all of the vital vitamins that are necessary, and improve vision clarity.
Moringa is also a very powerful free radical fighter. It has high levels of fibers and cleanses infections within the body. It will regulate cholesterol levels, promote healthier and younger-looking skin, alleviate diabetes, fight cancerous cells, slow down the aging process, and will also enhance sexual desire and performance.
You can buy it in a powder form and make smoothie drinks too. If they are freeze dried, the berries have a very long life while still maintaining full nutritive value. Moringa is definitely a healing food and should be added to any diet to maintain optimum health.
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Moringa is labeled as the antioxidant superfood, it’s known for its substantially large amounts of antioxidants and nutritional value.Moringa has double the cancer-fighting power of blueberries, the formerly known antioxidant contest frontrunner. Consumption of the Moringa not only helps prevent and attack cancerous cells, but it is said to boost energy and overall immunity as well. Actually, the list of supposed and even validated benefits is virtually endless from improved digestion to better circulation, and even better sleep. It is based on these extraordinary characteristics that Moringa has been referred to as the most healthful tree in the world.
Moringa has also shown promises of preventing heart disease, as it has 10-30 times the amount of cardiovascular-fighting phytochemical called anthocyanin found in red wine. You may have heard of these phytochemicals from the French Paradox that enumerates the oddity of heart disease’s rare occurrence in France despite their high fat intake. The concept bears the phytochemicals in the red wine responsible for their continued health.
With all these benefits filling the air, the tree sounds perfect right? Well I'm not here to tell you that it isn't, but I am here to tell you to be cautious about how much Moringa you consume. There is such a thing as an antioxidant overdose that has adverse effects such as weakness, fever and toxicity. So, with a fruit so jam-packed with antioxidants, one must be careful. Experts suggest discussing with your doctor what your optimal dosage of antioxidants is.
Within 6 hours after being picked off the plant, the Moringa leaves begin to loose their precious vitamins and Mineral value. This is why the preparation and process is vital to you and how you consume Moringa Tea The two best ways to preserve Moringa’s vitamin value is to either Freeze them or Freeze dry them.
The easiest most effective way to take advantage of Moringa is to take an easy to use dietary supplement called Moringa Tea. Moringa Tea use dried Leaf to preserve its powerful characteristics, giving you all the benefits of eating moringa right off the plant. This incredible product can be taken with just 1 small teabag a day, giving you 1,500 milligrams of 100% Pure Moringa Leaves, up to 10 times more than seen with overpriced multivitamins products.
Moringa Attack the Killer Cells that cause :
High Cholesterol:Moringa contains Phytonutrients to keep Cholesterol from being digested.
Diabetes:Low Glycemic index improves glucose and lipid levels.
Digestion:Digestion is improved because of Moringa high fiber content
Ulcers:Destroy bacterial infection with anti-bacterial properties and rebuild with Antioxidants.
University of Florida News:
"...extracts from Moringa powder triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86% of leukemia cells tested...
Almost all disease can be prevented or destroyed if given enough antioxidants.
In fact: "Moringa has Every Single Essential Nutrient required for humans..." "...also contains every essential and non-essential amino acid that humans require, also very rare in single food sources. - Dr. Levette Truette
People live very healthy lives eating nothing but Moringa Tea
In addition to it's beauty boosting properties, some other commonly reported benefits of Moringa include:
Improved mental clarity
Increased natural energy levels
Slowed signs of aging
Boosts immune system
Reduction in bad cholesterol (LDL)
Maintains good cholesterol (HDL)
Improved mental clarity and brain function
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• Boosts energy levels
• Improves digestive function
• Improves mental clarity/focus
• Promotes sound sleep
• Provides all vital vitamins
• Contains several important minerals
• Is an extremely powerful free radical fighter
• Moringa has very high levels of fibers
• Cleanses and Detoxifies the body of infectious toxins
• Strengthens your immune system
• Enhances sexual desire and performance
• Fights cancerous cells
• Slows down the aging process
• Promotes healthier and younger-looking skin
• Alleviates diabetes
• Normalizes and regulates cholesterol levels
• Helps maintain healthy heart function
• Minimizes inflammation
• Improves circulation
• Prevents artherosclerosis
• Enhances visual acuity
• Helps stabilize normal blood sugar levels
• Helps improve patients suffering from leukemia
• Fights general depression
• Supports weight loss
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Dear Friend
If you're looking into living a very long life... and... staying young and healthy...
this very well could be the most important message you will ever read.
One small common malungay tree is taking on the entire world's illnesses...and winning!
The secret all lies within how cells in your body die. Did you know there are only TWO ways for a cell in your body to die?
Apoptosis - The Good Way
The process where a damaged cell signals for a white blood cell to come and destroy it thoroughly.
The Result: No leftover parts of the cell to damage other cells.
Necrosis - The Bad Way
The destructive process cells go through unassisted: Electrons fall off into other cells wrecking havoc and causing everything we know as aging, including non-genetic diseases.
They become free radicals.
The Result: The body ages, develops Cancer, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Tumors, High Blood Pressure, etc...
So theoretically, if you could stop Necrosis from happening, you would stop aging completely and live healthy forever!
The only defenses we currently have against Necrosis are Antioxidants. Antioxidants are natural compounds shown to block or 'soak up' the extra cell parts (free radicals) left over from Necrosis.
The Result: Slower aging, less illness.
There are thousands of compounds in nature that are considered to be Antioxidants, but they are always found in very small concentrations. Within the last six years, the most concentrated source of antioxidants has finally been discovered.
The most powerful antioxidant on earth is Moringa Dried Leaves. In India and where the natives eat regular servings a day of Moringa or Malungay, they look very young and do not have any of the problems that plague the rest of us. No cancer, no heart disease, no stroke, etc. In fact, the 60 year old woman there has practically no wrinkles on her face at all.
Bluntly put, the Moringa triumphs any herbs on earth...as far as vitamins and antioxidants are concerned...
MORINGA ysp Tea, in condensed tea form is a product from pure & fresh leaves of the "highly underestimated Malunggay". "Moringa Oleifera LAM" ( a.k.a Malunggay/Kalamunggay) is considered the "Miracle Tree of Life" given all of its scientifically proven medical properties & effects!
Invented, Researched & Perfected with globally recognized Japanese technology (processing, packaging),MORINGA ysp is now a globally regarded herbal medicine by highly respected medical authorities (National Library of Medicine, USA; National Institute of Health, USA; Department of Science & Technology; Food & Nutirition Research Institute; HealthCheck Medical Center, Dr. Oliver Hill - Germany). MORINGA ysp is currently hitting the market worldwide as it cures & prevents all major common sickness/diseases known to man such as Dengue, Arthritis, Gout, Hormonal Imbalance, Kidney problems, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Ulcer and other intestinal disorders caused by the bacteria "Helicobacter Pylori", as well as skin problems among other ailments! MORINGA YSP is proudly Philippine made (Cebu) and is currently sweeping the markets in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Canada, North America and the Philippines as well.
Dr. Monica Marcu says “As a scientist and pharmacologist interested in nutrition and disease prevention, I believe that now, more than ever, more scientists should be directly involved in the education of the general public on issues related to environment, health and disease prevention”.
On this note I am very enthusiastic about my work at various levels with a plant of extraordinary potential - Moringa oleifera. Moringa is a plant possessing an impressive nutrient profile and numerous therapeutic qualities.
For instance, the plant contains hundreds of phytochemicals (plant-specific substances), nutritional compounds ranging from vitamins and minerals to omega fats and all essential amino acids. We also know it can clean and disinfect water (functioning even better than aluminum sulfate, a standard water flocculant), has antibacterial and antiviral properties, contains powerful antioxidant and anticancer substances and other important compounds such as cytokinins (Zeatin).
It also can function as a natural growth stimulant for other plants. Moringa has uses outside of the human health and medicinal realms - it is a terrific high nutrient feed for animals, it is useful in agro-forestry, and its oil has the potential to be used as biodiesel fuel. in many ways, Moringa truly appears to be a "miracle" plant.
Moringa: Food and Medicine
We know that Moringa represents a superior option for battling the effects of malnutrition in impoverished areas. in fact, numerous organizations are actively working to further the agriculture and distribution of Moringa within regions suffering from extreme poverty and hunger.
In addition to its rich nutritional qualities, the plant appears to have a tremendous potential in the areas of medicinal use. Traditional cultures in various parts of the world have long used Moringa in their herbal medicine repertoire for ailments ranging from gout to various inflammations and fevers.
Now, modern research is supporting the traditional medicinal uses of this remarkable plant. Several dozen studies, most of them animal studies, give us a good idea of its potential. however, there is still an urgent need of further research - especially of human studies - to ascertain the therapeutic qualities of Moringa.
So far, scientific findings suggest exciting healing potentials for Moringa. It may:
Relieve mineral and vitamin deficiencies.
Support a healthy cardiovascular system. In fact, a recent study in animals investigating the positive cardiovascular attributes of Moringa produced impressive results. The study, which compared Moringa to a widely used class of cholestirol - and lipid-lowering drug called statins, found Moringa to be comparable to statins in suppressing the initiation and propagation of lipid peroxidation and suppression of atherosclerosis formation
Promote normal blood-glucose levels.
Neutralize free radicals and thereby reduce oxidative damage.
Provide excellent support of the body's anti-inflammatory mechanisms. Inflammation is now linked to a wide array of modern degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes and cancer.
In addition to the above, the research also suggests Moringa is extremely safe, as no reports of toxicity have been issued.
So what does the future of Moringa hold? I believe we have only touched the tip of the iceberg - as future research and use of this noteworthy plant will reveal even more amazing qualities of Moringa.
I am pleased to add my efforts to those of many people and groups worldwide who are striving to successfully use Moringa in the areas of malnutrition, poverty and various diseases. I also believe that if moringa is widely consumed as a regular part of a healthy diet, the health advantages could be enormous in every part of this world.
Malunggay (Sajina or Moringa) plant grows in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and other regions of the Far East. The plant is sometimes referred to as nature's medicine cabinet and a miracle vegetable or horseradish tree for its root taste. The plant grows in hot tropical climates, deserts and living rooms. Moringa has sprouts of flowers, appear eight months during the year. These flowers are edible when cooked (taste like mushrooms) or used to make tea, containing calcium and potassium. A seed or cut branch can grow into a fifteen - foot tree in a year. The rugged plant can grow in drought conditions, and withstand overly acidic, alkaline, and salty soil.
The dozen known species of Malunggay has different known characteristics, grown in different parts of the world. In Madagascar Moringa has blue fungus, grown in Mexico has green cactuses, and in Oman appears as bubous tree. The bark of the tree sometimes used to make mats and rope. The leaves taste like spinach (Contains three times the iron of spinach. Also, a Moringa dried leaf has over ten times more nutrients than a fresh Moringa leaf, confirmed by universities and independent research laboratory analyses.), and its fruit produces a vegetable, like asparagus. Both contain Vitamin C (seven times more than found in oranges) and other minerals. Sajina contains seven times the amount of Vitamin C found in oranges, four times as much calcium as milk (A substitute for whole milk powder.) and three times the potassium of bananas. Moringa has quadruple amount of beta Carotene found in carrots, which is good for eyesight, and effective against treating cancer.
Scientifically speaking, Moringa sounds like magic. It can rebuild weak bones, enrich anemic blood and enable a malnourished mother to nurse her starving baby. Ounce for ounce, it has the calcium of four glasses of milk, the Vitamin C of seven oranges and the potassium of three bananas. Sounds like your Power Bar, you say? Well, consider this: A dash of Moringa can make dirty water drinkable. Doctors use it to treat diabetes in West Africa and high blood pressure in India. Not only can it staunch a skin infection, Moringa makes an efficient fuel, fertilizer and livestock feed.Memo to Popeye: Moringa has triple the iron of spinach and more impressive attributes than olive oil. Itís not only good for you, itís delicious. You can cook Moringa in Moringa oil and top it with Moringa sauce and still taste a spectrum of flavors.And itís a cheap enough to grow on trees. Which is what Moringa oleifera is: A tree, with a gnarly trunk and tousled head of foliage that make it look like a cypress that just rolled out of bed. It is a common tree that thrives in both the desert and the living room and produces leaves, pods, seeds and flowers that each do uncommon things.ìItís a remarkable tree,î said Lowell Fuglie, West Africa director for Church World Service, the relief arm of the National Council of Churches. ìAmong academics, the properties have been known for years. We decided to put it to the test.îThe organization recently convinced the nation of Senegal to promote Moringa as part of the national diet. This came after a two-year pilot project in the hardscrabble villages in the Senegalese southwest, where Moringa grows wild.Plantís Following Begins to Build Fuglie found ground Moringa leaves to be more readily embraced by rural villagers that other dietary aids, plus four times as effective. ìI couldnít believe what was happening,î he said. Malnutrition causes high infant mortality and a staggering array of health problems among an estimated 1 billion people. Though experts doubt a single food source can be a silver bullet in the war on hunger, Moringa has built an increasingly larger following in the last two years. More people are noticing that the plant is a proven water purifier with remarkable nutritional and medicinal properties that just happens to thrive in places where bad water, poor diets and the diseases they promote are leading killers.Scientists who study this gifted bit of flora also consider it an outstanding example of what has been lost in many other plants and animals: a genetic versatility bred away by huge agribusinesses.Many argue that a lack of genetic variation in the food we eat makes specific strains more susceptible to getting wiped out by a single pest, pathogen or climatological change. In 1970, 15% of the U.S. corn crop was destroyed when blight swept the grain belt. In the med-19th century, the Irish potato crop crashed, causing famine that killed a million people. The reason? Dominant plant varieties were too genetically alike and therefore vulnerable to the same enemy.ìThere are probably a lot of plants [other than Moringa] that have the same benefits,î said Barbara Schaal, an expert on evolutionary plant genetics at Washington University in St. Louis. ìThatís why itís so important to preserve natural biodiversity. Corn and soybean, all of these things have incredible potential. But weíve lost a lot of their wild relatives.îAt the same time, herb-happy consumers are gobbling up candy-coated nutrient bars crammed with everything from pine bark to bioflavonoids. Yet Moringa is a reminder of what nature can do. Here are some examples of how the plant is picking up a devoted following: The National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society and the Andrew Mellon Foundation are financing a scientistís hair-raising attempts to collect the worldís 13 Moringa species. Both Moringa and the common carrot are diamonds in the roughage department, but Moringa has quadruple the beta carotene, which is good for the eyes and effective against cancer. The Bethesda, MD.-based International Eye Foundation is using Moringa in Malawi because itís loaded with Vitamin A, the lack of which causes 70% of childhood blindness. Wichita, Kan.-based Trees for Life, which has been planting food-bearing trees in impoverished places since 1984, is running Moringa cultivation programs in India after convincing a town of 40,000 to make the tree a structured part of the local diet. Britainís University of Leicester is studying the coagulating properties of the seeds in those tasty Moringa pods, which researchers believe work better than the common water purifier aluminum sulfate, which can be toxic. The school weaned a Malawi village off imported alum by building a simpler Moringa-based system. Hospitalized for prostate surgery in December, former United Nations ambassador and ex0Atlanta mayor Andrew Young told people not to send flowers, but buy Moringa seedlings for the malnourished. Young is the new president of the National Council of Churches.The interest in Moringa is growing in a field filled with conflicting theories about fighting hunger. Several relief organizations asked to comment on the tree had never heard of it. Some were leery of anything that sounded like an easy fix to a complex problem.ìYouíd think Monsanto or somebody would have patented it by now,î joked Ian Bray, spokesman for the relief group Oxfam of Great Britain, when asked about Moringa. ìWeíve been looking for silver bullets for so long I think they donít exist.î Steve Hansch, research coordinator for the congressional Hunger Center in Washington, said he was annoyed that a November article in Monday Developments, a newsletter of the U.S. humanitarian community, touted the plant and Senegal effort without explaining hungerís complexities. ìA tree is not going to be a single intervention,î he said. ìThere are thousands of ways to treat malnutrition. If we can convince people in developing countries to eat any leafy green vegetable, if we can convince women to take iron supplements, weíve accomplished a lot. Itís not like we lack food for people to consume.î The fact that Moringa is a known quantity in much of the developing world is the key to its potential, Fuglie insisted. Moringa leaves already are used in Senegal to make a sauce. Some Nile River villages discovered its effectiveness as a water purifier. Nigerians use crushed leaves to clean cooking utensils and the wood yields a common blue dye in Jamaica. The seed oil is used for cooking and, because it wonít spoil, as a preservative and even machinery lubricant. The plant crops up elsewhere as an animal feed, plant fertilizer, fence post, stationery and oil paint.American stores specializing in Indian cuisine sell pickled Moringa pods as ìdrumsticks.î In some places, Moringa lives a sort of Clark Kent existence as a mere ornamental. Jim Johnson, head of a Mississippi seed company, Seedman.com,, began selling Moringa seeds several years ago after a Brazilian grower sent him samples. ìIt conforms its size and shape to whatever container itís in. Weíve sold thousands,î he said, expressing surprise at Moringaís other attributes.Ubiquitous though it is, Moringa advocates say the tree is only an occasional food source in the places where it grows, and that much of its nutritional value is boiled away.In a 65-page book on the National Council of Churchís pilot project in Senegal, Fuglie described the willingness of a hospital administrator to substitute Moringa for the classical, and costly, methods of using whole milk powder, vegetable oil and sugar to treat malnutrition. The official, a diabetic had been drinking Moringa tea to control his glucose for years, but had been unaware of its nutritional propertiesA star of the project was Awa Diedhou, an infant born weighing 3 pounds, 5 ounces. Her mother couldnít produce sufficient milk and the child was given little chance to survive. On a Moringa-supplemented diet, the child quickly grew ìquite fat,î Fuglie said, and the mother began producing milk.Beri beri, rickets and scurvy are among the diseases caused by the lack of nutrients that are abundant in Moringa. Three spoonfuls of Moringa leaf powder contain 272% of a typical toddlerís daily Vitamin A requirement, along with 42% of the protein, 125% of the calcium,, 71% of the iron and 22% of the Vitamin C. It contains a full complement of minerals and all the amino acids of meat.Some people find its water-purifying powers most compelling. Lack of drinkable water is, arguably, the worldís biggest health threat. Pressed Moringa seeds can turn a tumbler bacteria-laced river muck into clean water more economically than imported chemicals, researchers say.ìWith all these advantages, what are we waiting for?î University of Leicester scientist Ben Bazeley wrote last year in The Rotarian magazine. Rotary Clubs are sponsoring Moringa projects in Brazil and Zimbabwe.Its medicinal qualities also are tantalizing. The seeds and roots contain an antibiotic that Guatemalaís University of San Carlos found to be as effective against skin infections as neomycin. In recent years, studies published in the journal Phytotherapy Research and HortScience have found different Moringa parts to be effective in lowering blood sugar, reducing swelling, healing gastric ulcers, lowering blood pressure and even calming the nervous system.Moringa is also very rugged for something that sprouts flowers. A seed or cut branch can grow into a 15 foot tree in a year. A giant tap root lets the plant soldier through Saharan-scale droughts and withstand overly acidic, alkaline or salty soil. Though Moringa oleifera is most common, there are a dozen other known species within the genus, which means they share the same underlying biochemical structure. Moringa plays a blue fungus in Madagascar, green cactuses in Mexico and a bulbous bottle tree in Oman.It has hundreds of names: the Benzolive tree of Haiti, the Malunggay of the Philippines, even the horseradish tree of Florida because the roots taste like the condiment. But the root bark is toxic and the root meat contains a nerve paralyzer. Moringa bark is sometimes used to induce abortions in India, sometimes killing women in the process.Mark Olson, a Washington University doctoral candidate in evolutionary botany, has spent the last five years scouring some of the worldís deadliest shrubbery in a hunt for every species. Trip to Unstable Somalia Pays OffHeís found 12, and he suspects the 13th may be extinct. Each are found in dry, remote tropical areas that often feature a ware of some kind. ìPracticallyh nothing is known about them, and I quickly found out why,î said Olson.Particularly hairy was a 1998 hunt for a species that hadnít been recorded in 30 years. Olson and a band of armed bodyguards had to forage through the plantís likeliest habitat: perennially unstable Somalia. The risk was worth it. Out in the scrub of the arid landscape, Olson found his missing Moringa. It was laden with pods that looked like 3-foot-long string beans. ìThe local people used them for everything,î said Olson. ìItís one of the most useful trees in the world.îTime will tell if Moringa makes its way to American supermarkets, where everything from ginkgo biloba to green algae can be found crammed into artificially flavored chocolate bars.Olson, whose field work was recently featured in National Geographic magazine, has become a human clearinghouse of all things Moringa. He said heís seen a big jump in entrepreneurial inquiries in the last year.ìI get e-mails from businessmen in China who are growing huge crops of this to make money,î he said. ìThereís a huge amount of interest
