Research
Many scientific journals, newspapers articles and books have been written about Moringa oliefera. Below you will find a small selection of extracts.
“Scientifically speaking, Moringa sounds like magic. It can rebuild weak bones, enrich anaemic 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.”
Mark Fritz
Los Angeles Times
“The Moringa plant provides a rich and rare combination of zeatin, quercetin, beta-sitosterol, caffeoylquinic acid and kaempferol.”
“Various parts of this plant act as cardiac and circulatory stimulants, possess antiinflammatory, antiulcer, antispasmodic,, antihypertensive, cholesterol lowering, antioxidant, antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, antibacterial and antifungal activities.”
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
PubMed ID: 17089328
”GC-MS analysis of the chemical composition of the essential oil from leaves showed a total of 44 compounds. Isolated extracts could be of use for the future development of anti-skin disease agents.”
Institute of Bioagricultural Sceinces, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan, ROC.
PubMed ID: 16406607
“It is a remarkable tree whose leaves, pods and flowers have 7 times the Vitamin C found in oranges, 4 times the Vitamin A of carrots, 3 times the iron of spinach, 4 times as much calcium as milk and 3 times the potassium of bananas.”
Stanford Holst
“Although few people have heard of it today, Moringa could soon become one of the world’s most valuable plants.”
U.S National Academy of Sciences
Noel Vietmeyer
“The results indicate that this plant possesses antioxidant, hypolipidaemic and antiatherosclerotic activities and has therapeutic potential for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.”
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
PubMed ID : 18249514
“It was found that administration of the crude leaf extract of Moringa oleifera along with high-fat diet decreased the high-fat diet-induced increases in serum, liver, and kidney cholesterol levels by 14.35% (115-103.2 mg/100 ml of serum), 6.40% (9.4-8.8 mg/g wet weight) and 11.09% (1.09-0.97 mg/g wet weight) respectively.”
“This value was also found to be statistically significant. It was concluded that the leaves of Moringa oleifera have definite hypocholesterolemic activity”
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Nigeria, Enugu.
PubMed ID: 10661880