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Ezee One Botanical Drink Moringa Oleifera

Retail Price	RM 189.00
Member Price	RM 165.00
Business Value	100 BV

High Calcium Tea , Bedtime tea, Rejuvenating Tea
The Ezee One Botanical Drink Moringa Oleifera is composed in traditional way, of raw organic-grown leaves of the plant (Moringa oleifera) with minimal processing, so the active substances within the leaves can retain their qualities, and are provided in tea bags to preserve volatile nutrients.

Ezee One Botanical Drink Moringa Oleifera contains young shots and leaves only, no flavors, no colors, no aromatizers or stabilizers.

A mild sedative, high in vitamins A, B-complex C and E as well as many minerals, especially Calcium.

The Ezee One Botanical Drink Moringa Oleifera is drunk by thousands of people, not only as a satisfying beverage, but also to promote health. It is taken to help combat disease, maintain good health, improve metabolism and increase resistance to disease.

Moringa leaves compared to other common foods :

Nutrients	Common foods	Fresh leaves	Dried leaves
Vitamin A	1.8mg carrots	6.8mg	18.9mg
Calcium	120mg milk	440mg	2003mg
Potassium	88mg bananas	259mg	1324mg
Protein	3.1g yogurt	6.7g	27.1g
Vitamin C	30mg oranges	220mg	17.3mg

History and Traditional Uses
In the Indian indigenous system of medicine, the leaves of Moringa oleifera are described to remove all kinds of excessive pain, useful in eye diseases, cure hallucinations, and as an aphrodisiac, anthelmintic, dry tumors, hiccough, asthma etc.
The juice of the leaves of Moringa oleifera is given as an emetic.

Phytochemistry
Moringa oleifera leaves contain two nitrile glycosides, niazirin and niazirinin, and three mustard oil glycosides, 4-[(4'-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnosyloxy) benzyl] isothiocyanate, niaziminin A, and niaziminin B which are reported to be responsible for hypotensive activity.

Scientific evidence
Antimicrobial: Moringa oleifera extract was found to inhibit the growth of Trichophyton rubrum and T. mentagrophytes. Thus it has been proposed that Moringa oleifera extract can be used in the treatment of subcutaneous phycomycosis in humans and animals.
The fresh leaf juice and aqueous extracts from the seeds inhibited the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus when tested by a disk diffusion method.

Antiulcer: The methanol fraction of Moringa oleifera leaf extract was found to possess significant protective actions in acetylsalicylic acid; serotonin and indomethacin induced gastric lesions in experimental rats. In another study, a significant enhancement of the healing process in acetic acid-induced chronic gastric lesions was observed with the extract-treated animals.

Hyperthyriodism: The role of Moringa oleifera aqueous leaf extract was studied in the regulation of thyroid hormone status in adult Swiss rats. The results of this study suggested the inhibiting nature of Moringa oleifera leaf extract in the peripheral conversion of T (4) to T (3), the principal source of the generation of latter hormone. Thus the use of lower concentration of this plant extract as predicted from the studies, for the regulation of hyperthyroidism has been suggested.

Hypocholesterolemic: The leaves of Moringa oleifera are reported to be used by the Indians in their herbal medicines as a hypocholesterolemic agent in obese patients.In a study conducted it was found that administration of the crude leaf extract of Moringa oleifera along with high-fat diet decreased the high-fat diet-induced increases in serum cholesterol level to a statistically significant extent.

Moringa leaves can be picked for delicious fresh salad, or use in one of the many Moringa recipes. Leaves of Moringa Oleifera can be extremely valuable source of nutrition for people of all ages.

Analysis of the Moringa leaf composition has revealed significant quantities of vitamins A, B and C, Calcium, iron and protein.

Moringa leaves are full of essential disease preventing nutrients:
i) Vitamin A, which act as a shield against eye disease, skin disease, heart ailments, diarrhea, and many other diseases.
ii) Vitamin C, fighting a host of illnesses including colds and flu.
iii) Calcium, which builds strong bones and teeth, and helps prevent osteoporosis
iv) Potassium - essential for the functioning of the brain and nerves.
v) Proteins, the basic building blocks of all our body cells.Children can benefit from addition of Moringa leaves to their diet. The high concentration of iron, protein, copper, various vitamins and essential amino acids present in Moringa leaves make them a virtually ideal nutritional supplement.
Dry Moringa leaves can make a delicious green tea.

Dry Moringa leaves can be made into Moringa powder and the concentrated nutrition to balance ones diet for increased energy.

Leaves are considered to offer great potential for those nutritionally at risk.

i) In India juice from leaves is believed to have a stablizing effect on blood pressure and treats anxiety.
ii) In Senegal an infusion of leaf juice is believed to control glucose level in diabetes.
iii) Mixed with honey and followed by a drink of coconut milk 2 or 3 times a day, leaves are used as a remedy for diarrhea, dysentry and inflammation of the colon.
iv) Leaf juice, at times added with carrot juice used to increase urine flow.
v) Eating leaves is recommended in cases of gonorrhea on account of the increasing of urine flow.
vi) Leaf juice at times is used as a skin antiseptic.
vii) In India, leaves are used to treat fevers, bronchitis, eye and ear infections.
viii) In Philippines, eating leaves is believed to increase a woman's milk production and prescribed for anemia.

Famously, leaves from this Tropical tree is reputed to prevent 300 diseases, as well as curing numerous ailments.
TRADITIONAL REMEDIES SUPPORTED BY STUDIES.
Recent laboratory studies have shown:

i) Moringa leaf extract is effective in lowering blood sugar levels within 3 hours.

ii) An extract taken from dried leaves showed an impressive ability to heal ulcers in Lab. animals.

iii) An extract made from dried powdered leaves was shown to have a very potent depressive effect on the central nervous system, resulting in significant muscle relaxation, decreased body temperature and increased sleep time among laboratory mice.

Related Links :
http://www.mobot.org/grastudents/olson/moringahome.html
("The homepage of the plant family Moringaceae).

http://islamonline.net/english/sience/2003/02/article06.shtml
("The Moringa Tree: Nature's Pharmacy").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa
("wikipedia, the free encyclopedia")

http://origin.dailynews.lk/2001/11/29/fea05/html
("Drumstick plant emerges to prevent cancer")

http://marikosfamilyfarm.com/nutrition.html
("Nutrition information for Moringa at Mariko's family farm").

http://www.moringablog.com/
("The Moringa Blog").

http://www.treesforlife.org/treeforlife.asp
("Trees for Life organization")