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Moringa oleifera contains
Per 100g Moringa leaf powder
Fresh leaves
Calories 205.0 92 Protein (g) 27.1 6.7 Fat (g) 2.3 1.7 Carbohydrate (g) 38.2 12.5 Fibre (g) 19.2 0.9
Source: Fuglie, Lowell J., ed. The Miracle Tree: Moringa oleifera: Natural Nutrition for the Tropics. Training Manual. 2001. Church World Service, Dakar, Senegal.
<www.moringatrees.org/moringa/ miracletree.html>, May 2002.
Moringa oleifera: Minerals
Per100g Moringa leaf powder
Fresh leaves
Ca (mg) 2.003 440Mg (mg) 368 42P (mg) 204 70K (mg) 1.324 259Cu (mg) 0,6 0,07Fe (mg) 28 0,85
Moringa oleifera: Vitaminsmg Moringa leaf
powderFresh leaves
Vitamin A - B carotene 16.3 6.78Vitamin B1 - thiamin 2.6 0.06 Vitamin B2 - riboflavin 20.5 0.05 Vitamin B3 - nicotinic acid 8.2 0.8Vitamin C - ascorbic acid 17.3 220Vitamin E - tocopherol acetate 113.0 k.A.
Essential Amino Acidsmg per 100g Moringa leaf
powderFresh leaves
Arginine 1325 406Histidine 613 150 Isoleucine 825 300 Leucine 1950 492Lysine 1325 342Methionine 350 118Phenylalanine 1388 310Threonine 1188 118Tryptophan 425 107Valine 1063 375
Moringa leaf powderHow do we make moringa leaf powder??
1. Pick the leaves.2. Wash them in
salt water and then again in fresh water.
3. Dry them in the shade.
Moringa leaf powderThen it is ready for use
As here, with
under-
nourished
children,
in Adi,
D. R. Congo
Use moringa leaf powder
especially with …
• undernourished children• pregnant women• breast feeding mothers• AIDS Patients
Side effects
All are positive! For example:• Diarrhoea ceases.• Fungal infections on the skin disappear.• Diabetes is stabilised.• Anaemia improves.• Tummy problems are helped.
One may also use the flowers
As tea to treat colds. In
omelettes they taste like
mushrooms.
Caution: flowers may prevent conception, and if used during
pregnancy they may cause abortion
And also the pods
When they are young, cook the pods as a vegetable.
When older, cook the white seeds like peas.
Take Moringa oleiferaevery day with the meals. Used together with Artemisia annua anamed tea, it can be just as effective as anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, but without the usual side-effects.
Also use with HIV/AIDS
Patients
Procedure
1. Remove the shells.
2. Pound the white seeds.
3. Put the pounded seeds into a soda bottle with a little clean water and shake vigorously for 5 minutes.
In Kendu Bay, on the shores of Lake Victoria
it really was like a miracle.
Heavy rains had caused the lake water to turn brown.
After using moringa seeds, we could drink tea made with lake water – and taste the tea!
Where does this tree grow?
• In tropical and sub-tropical semi-arid climates up to a height of about 1500 m.
• Where the rainfall lies between 250 and 3000 mm per year
• On light clay or sandy soils.• Even where droughts occur• And even where short term flooding occurs.
Make a hedge, or a plantation
• Transplant into good earth in a large hole.
• Put a lot of compost in the hole and then cover the ground with mulch.
Constantly trim the
branches!
in order to produce the maximum amount of leaves and seeds!
In tropical climates the trees can be cut back 7 or 8 times a year. In a plantation one can produce up to 120 tons of dry leaves per
hectare and year!Source: Prof. Dr. K. Becker, University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Moringa stenopetala
There are other very important moringa trees.
M. Stenopetala grows in Ethiopia.
It has similar properties to M. oleifera.
Moringa stenopetala…is also used as a vegetable.
The tree is bigger than M. oleifera – leaves, pods, seeds, everything.
But it has not been so thoroughly researched.