List of Some Health Benefits Of Moringa.
Several studies have shown Moringa’s health benefits.
- It is a strong antioxidant effective against prostate and skin cancers, an anti-tumor and an anti-aging substance.
- It modulates anemia, high blood pressure, diabetes, high serum or blood cholesterol, thyroid, liver, and kidney problems.
- It has strong anti-inflammatory properties ameliorating rheumatism, joint pain, arthritis, edema, and Lupus.
- It is effective against digestive disorders including colitis, diarrhea, flatulence (gas), ulcer or gastritis.
- As an anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, and anti-viral agent, it is affective against urinary tract infection, typhoid, syphilis, dental caries and toothaches, fungus, thrush, common cold, Epstein-Barr Virus, Herpes Simplex, HIV AIDS, warts, parasites, worms, schistosomes, and trypanosomes.
- As a detoxifying agent, it is effective against snake and scorpion bites.
- It is effective against nervous disorders including headaches, migraines, hysteria, and epilepsy. (Richardson, 2009)
Moringa Helps Plants to Grow & Nourishes Soil
credit: Jed W. Fahey, Sc.D. , is a nutritional biochemist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
At Proyecto BIOMASA, an agricultural research program located in Nicaragua, Moringa has been studied for over six years. Research has found evidence, for example, that Moringa can be used as a foliar spray to increase plant growth and as green manure to improve soil fertility.
Lowell Fuglie summarized some of BIOMASA’s major findings in a report excerpted below.
BIOMASA has discovered that Moringa Leaf extract contains a plant growth hormone. Fuglie writes, “Juice from fresh Moringa leaves can be used to produce an effective [ spray containing ] plant growth hormone, increasing yields by 25-30% for nearly any crop: onions, bell pepper, soya, maize, sorghum, coffee, tea, chili, melon…One of the active substances is Zeatin: a plant hormone from the cytokinin group. This foliar spray should be used in addition to (and not in lieu of)other fertilizers, watering, and should agricultural practices. “In one trial, the use of this hormone[spray] increased maize yields from 60 to 130 sacks per hectare.Using this hormone[spray]. BIOMASA was able to grow coffee at 30 meters altitude. coffee shaded with Jatropha curcas, produced beans in just 17 months.” (price,1985)
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credit: Jed W. Fahey, Sc.D. , is a nutritional biochemist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.