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Oct. 9th, 2003 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiyaA while back I wrote in my journal about the moringa tree. When I joined this community I meant to say something or make reference to it, and I kept clean forgetting; finally I've remembered! (This is most of the text of the journal entry I linked to.)
It's amazing stuff (just to pick one of the articles I found). Fastest-growing tree known, native to India (and Africa), lots of its parts are edible, it can purify water, its oil has even more nutritious stuff in than olive oil and burns clean, it has antibacterial properties, it apparently can help with controlling diabetes, the flowers are edible (calcium and potassium), are used for tea for colds, and last most of the year for bees, its root can be turned into a condiment like horseradish (and one species has a starchy, edible root), it's successful in combating malnutrition in Senegal, the dried leaves are ground to a powder that's an effective dietary supplement . . . .
Oh, and the wood can be used to produce a blue dye. In case there was a need for anything else.
I was looking it up in the context of making perfumes and essential oils.
Still need to get some and see what it smells like. Or tastes like, or . . . .
Anyway. I thought I'd share the coolness, now that I remembered it.
It's amazing stuff (just to pick one of the articles I found). Fastest-growing tree known, native to India (and Africa), lots of its parts are edible, it can purify water, its oil has even more nutritious stuff in than olive oil and burns clean, it has antibacterial properties, it apparently can help with controlling diabetes, the flowers are edible (calcium and potassium), are used for tea for colds, and last most of the year for bees, its root can be turned into a condiment like horseradish (and one species has a starchy, edible root), it's successful in combating malnutrition in Senegal, the dried leaves are ground to a powder that's an effective dietary supplement . . . .
Oh, and the wood can be used to produce a blue dye. In case there was a need for anything else.
I was looking it up in the context of making perfumes and essential oils.
Still need to get some and see what it smells like. Or tastes like, or . . . .
Anyway. I thought I'd share the coolness, now that I remembered it.
