Moringa Oleifera Benefits And Side Effects

Moring tree beginning to gain more popularity as a new superfood for its highly nutritious profile and powerful anti-inflammatory antioxidant and tissue protective properties. Moringa oleifera, also known as horseradish tree, been tree or drumstick tree, is a small tree from India Pakistan and Nepal that has been used for generations in eastern countries to treat and prevent diseases such as diabetes heart disease anemia arthritis liver disease and respiratory skin and digestive disorders. Moringa has become popular as a leaf powder supplement, although the pods, roots, bark flowers, seeds…

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Meet Moringa: A medicinal superfood ready for development

Moringa Leaf

Carrie Waterman, Ph.D. Research Scientist UC Davis Department of NutritionEducation: Ph.D. Pharmacognosy, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA Research Interests: Dr. Waterman’s interests are to expand and improve moringa’s use, production, and processing worldwide. She is also pursuing Moringa for additional therapeutics applications, including cancer, HIV and IBD, as a nematocide and biofertilizer in agricultural uses, and in livestock feed for improved animal nutrition and milk production.

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Moringa, A Nutritious Superfood and Natural Multivitamin

Moringa, A Nutritious Superfood and Natural Multivitamin

Moringa Oleifera is known worldwide as a fast growing, multi-use tree species. The green leaves are considered an extremely nutrient dense vitamin and mineral concentrate that can be naturally enlivening to the cells because of their purifying, alkalizing and nourishing properties. The nutritional benefits of Moringa have been valued for centuries in various parts of the world as a highly nourishing dietary food source. The leaves are one of those special green superfoods that exemplify the healing power of chlorophyll rich plants. Learn more about how it is used as…

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