MALUNGGAY MEANING AND USES

While you may have only seen the word “moringa” in the last few years, how
much do you know about it? This plant from “the miracle tree” has been used by
cultures all over the world for thousands of years. Here’s what you need to know about
moringa oleifera (Malunggay).

Malunggay (Moringa Oleifera), is a popular plant known for high nutritional value
as well as an herbal medicine. Malunggay is a plant that grows in the tropical climates
such as the Philippines, India and Africa. Malunggay is widely used as vegetable
ingredient in cooking, as herbal medicine for a number of illness and other practical
uses. Malunggay is a much-branched small tree growing as high as 9 meters, with a
soft and white wood and corky and gummy bark. The compound leaf has about 3 to 9
leaflets. Malunggay has white fragrant flowers that produces long pods with 3-angled
winged seeds.

Malunggay may be propagated by planting its seeds about an inch in the ground
or matured malunggay stem cuttings of about 3 feet in length may also be planted into
the ground. Planted malunggay cuttings grows faster compared to planted seeds. It has
been used as herbal medicine in many cultures for hundreds of years, Malunggay is
known as a very nutritious plant where it is used to combat malnutrition in third world
countries especially for infants and nursing mothers.

Moringa oleifera is native to India where it is utilized in a number of preparations.

For thousands of years, moringa leaf has been a source of nutrition, while the timber
from the morgina tree provides building materials. Moringa leaves and seed pods are
often eaten for their nutritious value and the roots made into a pungent condiment. The
leaf is used extensively in Ayurveda and is typically steeped as moringa tea.

Moringa is a tree that has been used for thousands of years in India for
everything from food, to building materials, and also for its beneficial properties. This
'wonder tree' truly is wondrous in that each part of the tree is useful. The roots, stems,
leaves, seed pods, resin and flowers are considered to be healing herbs.

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