Moringa olefeira is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Moringa, which is the only genus in the family Moringaceae. The English common names include Moring, drumstick tree from the appearance of the long, slender, triangular seed pods . The tree itself is slender with drooping branches that grow to approximately 10m in height. It is grown in the West, East and South Africa, tropical Asia, Latin America, the Carribean ,Florida and the Pacific islands.
Infact all parts of the Moringa tree are useful and edible. Many uses for Moringa they include : domestic cleaning agents( crushed leaves), honey(flower nectar),fertilizer(seed cake) and so on.
Moringa seed oil also known as Ben oil is a sweet non-drying oil that resists rancidity. It has been used for salads, fine machine lubrication and in the manufacture of perfume and health care products.
Facts about Moringa olefeira
- Moringa trees have been used to combat malnutrion especially among infants and nursing mothers. Three NGOs have advocated Moringa as "Natural nutrition for the tropics". Moringa leaves contain more Vitamin A than carrots, more Calcium than milk, more Vitamin C than oranges and more Potassium than bananas.
-Benefits of Moringa in disease treatment and prevention that come from either dietary or topical administration of Moringa preparations (extracts, oils, creams, powders) are not quite so well known. Although traditional medicine references attest to its curative power. Unfortunately, many of these reports of efficacy in human beings are not supported by placebo controlled randomized clinical trials nor have they been published in high visibility journals.
- Moringa having been valued for their cancer preventive potential the proof required by modern medicine has not been realized because the prevention of cancer has not been adequately demonstrated in human subjects
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