MORINGA

Scientifically speaking, Moringa sounds like magic. It can rebuild weak bones, enrich anemic 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. Moringa has triple the iron of spinach. Both Moringa and the common carrot are diamonds in the roughage department, but Moringa has quadruple the beta carotene, which is good for the eyes and effective against cancer.The Bethesda, Md.-based International Eye Foundation is using Moringa in Malawi because it’s loaded with Vitamin A, the lack of which causes 70% of childhood blindness. Its medicinal qualities also are tantalizing. The seeds and roots contain an antibiotic that Guatemala’s University of San Carlos found to be as effective against skin infections as neomycin.

In recent years, studies published in the journal Phytotherapy Research and Hort Science have found different Moringa parts to be effective in lowering blood sugar, reducing swelling, healing gastric ulcers,lowering blood pressure and even calming the nervous system.

One amazing true to life testimony on the benefits of Moringa is the case of Awa Diedhou ( from Africa ), an infant born weighing 3 pounds, 5 ounces. Her mother couldn’t produce sufficient milk and the child was given little chance to survive. On a Moringa supplemented diet, the child quickly grew “quite fat,” and the mother began producing milk.

Beri beri, rickets and scurvy are among the diseases caused by the lack of nutrients that are abundant in Moringa. Three spoonfuls of Moringa leaf powder contain 272% of a typical toddler’s daily Vitamin A requirement, along with 42% of the protein, 125% of the calcium,, 71% of the iron and 22% of the Vitamin C. It contains a full complement of minerals and all the amino acids of meat .

It could be said without any doubt that from the pure Moringa Tree Leaf we can get very good benefits for the health, which are very much reported in studies of the leaf. It is the organic, natural, endurance and energy supplement of health. According to the annals of the ayurveda, India’s old tradition of medicines, the leaves of the Moringa Tree could treat at least 300 diseases.

Written below are the benefits of the Moringa Leaf:

Ø Increases the Natural Defenses of the body

Ø Provides nourishment to the eyes and the brain.

Ø Promotes metabolism with bio-available ingredients

Ø Promotes the Cell structure of the body

Ø Promotes natural Serum cholesterol.

Ø Lowers the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines.

Ø Promotes the normal functioning of the liver and the kidney.

Ø Beautifies the skin

Ø Promotes energy

Ø Promotes proper digestion

Ø Acts as an antioxidant

Ø Takes care of the immune system of the body

Ø Promotes healthy circulatory system

Ø It is anti-inflammatory

Ø Gives a feeling of general wellness

Ø Supports the normal sugar levels of the body.

Moringa leaf boosts your energy in a natural manner, and is a remarkable source of nutrition. This energy promotion does not happen because of sugar, so it is lasts for a long time. Individuals ingesting it say that their ulcers are healed, tumors restricted, there are reduction in the arthritis pains and inflammations, controlled blood pressure, the skin problems are restored, and finally they have stronger defenses against diseases

A rare hope for dialysis patients (http://www.sancarloscity.org/quisumbingsite/)

I received really exciting news this week which indicates there is still a chance for thousands of dialysis patients like me to get off dialysis without a kidney transplant.

Sometime in June, a retired doctor and his wife came to visit me one Sunday morning after reading my column that the moringa (malunggay) drink has greatly improved my health and amazed my doctors.

The good doctor told me that he has been on dialysis for more than a year and wanted to know if the moringa drink could help him. I told the doctor that while my blood works are now better and I am more energetic than before my kidneys still do not work. I suggested to him that he tries the moringa drink considering that he has been on dialysis for less than 2 years. In my case I have been on dialysis for 8 years now and it might take a longer time for my kidneys to work again.

Puring, the doctor’s wife, who is a nurse, signed up as a distributor and ordered 6 cases of the moringa drink.

Well, Puring called last Sunday to tell me the exciting news that the doctor’s kidneys have started to function again because for the past three weeks he has started to pee which he has not done for over a year!

She told me that her husband’s blood works are good and she is now monitoring his progress to see if his creatinine would go down indicating that his kidneys have recovered and he can be off dialysis. She said that the doctor is now taking 2 cans of Zija daily.
What Puring told me has really gotten me excited because right now there is no known cure for renal failure. The only way for dialysis patients to get off dialysis is through a kidney transplant and which is a long shot. It is hard to get a donor and if a kidney is indeed available there is a long list of kidney patients waiting in line. To be picked as the recipient of a kidney is like winning the lotto which is one of 22 million chances.

There are now thousands of dialysis patients. The hospital where I have my dialysis treatments is packed all the time and it no longer accepts new patients unless there is a vacancy meaning a patient has died.

I have not given up hope that someday I will be off dialysis either thru a kidney transplant or a miracle from God.

When doctors tell me that there is no cure yet for kidney failure I do not pay attention to it because I believe that God is the ultimate doctor and healer. If He can make a dead person rise He can do the same to a mere kidney.

Who knows moringa might be the answer. The scientists who did the medical research on moringa call it the miracle tree or plant.

“It is truly a gift from God,” according to Dr. Russ Biancchi, the formulator of the moringa drink.
I used to take only a can of moringa a day. Now I take 2 cans. Who knows the extra can and prayers to the Almighty will do it.

Joel Osteen, my favorite television preacher, always tells his viewers “just stay in faith and God will just surprise you.”

Last August 19 was my eight year as a dialysis patient. I have lived on borrowed time all these years and I thank God for keeping me alive. Each day God gives me means a miracle could still happen.

When the day will come that I will be off dialysis with or without a transplant it will be a testimony of His awesome powers and goodness.

I have not revealed the name of the doctor whose kidneys have started to work again thanks to the moringa drink. I do not want him to be swamped with calls but I have the permission of Puring to give her number in case anyone wants to talk to her husband. They live in Toms River, NJ.

By the way, Puring told me that her husband’s vision has greatly improved. They also attribute this to the moringa drink. I learned that the doctor now wants to do the driving at night but she still feels safer being the driver especially at night.

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