Moringa oleifera: bioactive compounds and nutritional potential
Moringa oleifera: bioactive compounds and nutritional potential ABSTRACT This work aims to review the nutritional properties of the Moringa oleifera tree, emphasizing its main constituents and nutritional applications for humans and animals. Moringa oleifera (Moringaceae) is a cosmopolitan tree that grows in many tropical countries showing uncountable folk uses due to its various nutritional and […]
Phytochemicals And Uses Of Moringa
Phytochemicals And Uses Of Moringa Moringa oleifera was massively grown and promoted by the local media in Uganda in the 1980s as a plant putatively able to cure a number of diseases including symptoms of HIV/AIDS. Industrialists bought the leaves and seeds to use as raw materials and this promoted its being grown by many […]
The Anti Proliferative Effect of Moringa Oleifera
The antiproliferative effect of Moringa oleifera crude aqueous leaf extract on cancerous human alveolar epithelial cells Abstract Background The incidence of lung cancer is expected to increase due to increases in exposure to airborne pollutants and cigarette smoke. Moringa oleifera (MO), a medicinal plant found mainly in Asia and South Africa is used in the traditional […]
Moringa Oleifera: A Natural Gift
Moringa Oleifera: A Natural Gift Introduction The plants have always been vital for mankind irrespective of the era and area all over the globe since the begining of life. These were, are and will remain ever beneficial from nutritional, social, cultural, religious, environmental and human’s health etc. The medicinal plants have greatest potential for benefitting […]
Moringa Oleifera – A Review
A Review of the Medical Evidence for Its Nutritional, Therapeutic, and Prophylactic Properties. Part 1. Introduction Moringa oleifera is the most widely cultivated species of a monogeneric family, the Moringaceae, that is native to the sub-Himalayan tracts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. This rapidly-growing tree (also known as the horseradish tree, drumstick tree, benzolive […]