For housewives, this plant is certainly familiar, this plant is often used as a mixture of vegetables. In Indonesia, this leaf is known as the 'Moringa tree.' The leaves of this plant can be identified by the shape of their tiny tiny leaves so that the term "" The world is not as wide as moringa leaves. "This term is often used to eliminate the disappointment of a lover because he is left to marry someone else.
Apart from this expression, the use of Moringa oleifera leaves, its Latin name, is highly recommended because it has extraordinary benefits for health. Apart from just being a vegetable, it turns out that this tropical plant has long been used as a traditional medicine. Moringa trees are also easy to grow and can live in soil that is not very fertile. How to plant it is also very easy, we just need to plant pieces of the stem or branch of this moringa, we don't have to wait long in a month, we can pick the leaves for vegetables and for herbal medicinal purposes.
There is no doubt about the health benefits of Moringa leaves, 2 grams of Moringa leaves contain 14 calories and a variety of nutrients that are very beneficial for our bodies. From the results of research, some of the content of Moringa leaves includes copper, zinc, selenium, calcium fiber phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc, protein, and low in calories besides that Moringa leaves also contain various kinds of vitamins, this leaf also contains a lot of antioxidants which are very beneficial for our bodies to protect cells from free radical damage. Adequate intake of antioxidants can also reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Children and babies are also strongly encouraged to give this leaf intake because it is very useful during growth times. This is even more so considering that the stunting rate in children in several countries is still quite high. Moringa leaves are one of the plants recommended by the WHO as one of several other vegetable plants.
This plant has long been known as a herbal plant that is rich in benefits so that the World Organization in the same class as WHO has named this plant a miracle tree, aka a miracle tree. This plant is useful from maintaining blood pressure to preventing cancer. Not only that, Moringa leaves have various other benefits which have been very well known from time immemorial.
One of the benefits of Moringa leaves which are very suitable for current conditions, the efficacy of these leaves is to increase endurance from attacks by various kinds of diseases and germs and viruses. Some types of germs that often attack humans include germs that cause typhus (Salmonella typhi) and the herpes virus which often attacks the skin. Given the ability and substances contained in Moringa leaves to fight viruses, Moringa leaves are of course very effective to help increase our immune system against the Covid-19 virus which is still endemic in all parts of the world.
The method of processing Moringa leaves is very easy, after picking it is recommended to immediately use it because the very thin Moringa leaves wither easily. Utilizing these leaves when the leaves are still fresh, of course, the taste is still very good and the benefits are still high compared to consuming the leaves that have wilted. How to use it is enough to cook it as a vegetable or brew it into tea. One of the more effective ways of using it for sustainable treatment is to make Moringa leaves in powder or tea form. For now in my area, Moringa leaf tea is available which is produced by home industries which are supported by the local village government through Village-Owned Enterprises (Bumdes) to be marketed widely. So it's easy to use.
