Abstract

MORINGA OLEIFERA AND ITS BROAD SPECTRUM PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES

*Subzar Ahmad Sheikh

ABSTRACT

Moringa oleifera (M. oleifera) is an angiosperm plant, native of the Indian subcontinent, where its various parts have been utilized throughout history as food and medicine. It is now cultivated in all tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. The nutritional, prophylactic and therapeutic virtues of this plant are being extolled on the Internet. Dietary consumption of its part is therein promoted as a strategy of personal health preservation and self-medication in various diseases. The enthusiasm for the health benefits of M. oleifera is in dire contrast with the scarcity of strong experimental and clinical evidence supporting them. Fortunately, the chasm is slowly being filled. In this article, we studied some of the broad spectrum properties of Moringa oleifera.

Keywords: Moringa oleifera, prophylactic, therapeutic.