MURUNGAI (BOTANICAL NAME: MORINGA OLEIFERA)

Murungai is a fast growing and deciduous tree. It can reach 30 to 40 feet high. The trunk is brownish dark with the thick cork. Young shoots have purple or greenish bark. The tree has fragile open crown of drooping branches bearing the leaves are tripinnate and build up a feathery foliage leaves.

 

The flowers are fragrant and bisexual surrounded by unequal thinly veined cream yellowish petals. they grow on slender hairy stalks in spreading or drooping flower clusters long. Flowering starts within the first six months  after the growth of the plant only occurs in the months of April to July every year.

The fruit is a hanging, three sided  brown capsule of 20-45 cm size which holds dark brown, globular seeds with a diameter around 1 cm. the seeds have three whitish papery wings and are dispersed by wind and water.

If you grow a drumstick plant on your home garden which means that you are having smart pharmacy in your hands. Its every part is used for all the age group members of the family and it is the best medicine for all of the common diseases. Overall it is the most recommended spinach variety The root, stem, branches, flowers gum fruits are the raw bases for many medical treatment.

The leaves are used in many types of tasty recipes like murungai keerai poriyal, murungaikai sambar, murungai poo poriyal, murungai keerai vadaia, adai, murungai keerai kootu and the very murungai keerai soup, but apart from this drumstick leaves are beneficial for many health problems. Our ancestors already know the wonderful use of these leaves and habituated us to make dishes which are very beneficial to our health and compelled to grow this tree in our backyard.

These dishes are being cooked by our maa or ladies and made us eat and get medicinal benefits knowingly or unknowingly.

According to Ayurveda, drumstick leaves carry medicinal properties which can cure more than 250 types of diseases. It has nutrients and antioxidants which are useful in being healthy.

Drumstick leaves have vitamin A and vitamin C. They also carry plenty of Amino acid and calcium.

drumstick leaves act as a anti spasmodic, expectorant and stimulant.

Hand full of Drumstick leaves, twenty grams of barley, little amount of cumin seeds and small pinch of turmeric are boiled and throw the extracts. Drink the juice for kidney and urine related problems.

The power of healing dandruff, body heat and hair loss problems are possessed in drumstick leaves by grinding it and apply on the scalp for the above diseases.

It has a power of reducing anemia, if you take ten pepper with Moringa Oleifera leaves /murungai keerai for fifteen days in a regular basis.

Add black til with this leaves and prepare in the form of tincture. Drink the healthy drink for a week to get relief from menstrual problems.

People who are suffering from eye problems and eye related diseases are recommended to tie the grinder leaves of drumstick without adding water during the grinding process.

Dip the broken nutmeg in morning oleifera juice and grind it after the dried process. Take two grams of powder during the night to prevent libido problems and acts as a medicine to cure the disease.

Boil salt with leaves of drumstick and eat it for fifteen days to get rid of arthritis problems.

Many of them have experience the uncomfortability of gas problems and searching the ayurvedic medicine.  Drink the juice that has this variety of spinach, few pieces of garlic, pinch of both turmeric and salt. 

Lungs and respiratory related diseases are healed when licorice, pepper which are soaked in juice of this leaves. Grind the dried mixture and take small amount of this powder with honey.

Mix the cumin seeds in the juice of moringa leaves/muringai keerai and leave it for few hours.  Grind the dried cumin seeds and add little amount of this powder with honey for normal blood pressure and healthy heart.

Drumstick leaves are rich in calcium. Consumption of these leaves can be helpful for stronger bones and stronger teeth.

Potassium is useful in brain development. Drumstick leaves contain plenty of potassium, even more than potato. Thus they are useful in brain development and nerves building.

Drumstick leaves are very much useful in building up body cells and make the body fit and healthy.Consumption of drumstick leaves are advised for conceived ladies who are suffering from calcium deficiency and insufficient iron in the blood.

These leaves improve defense mechanism in body and thus fight against many type of infections.

Applying boiled drumstick leaves paste on joint pain, nerves or muscles pain, headache gives soothing effect immediately.

The antimicrobial properties of drumstick leaves cure throat, chest and many types of skin infections.

The people who are facing the problem of sexual weakness, the drumstick and drumstick leaves are highly advised as a treatment.

Drumstick leaves and lemon juice is a miracle mixture for treating many diseases like deficiency, anemia, cough, asthma, nerves weakness and even for smoothness of skin.

If you are getting swelling on hands or legs frequently, then drumstick leaves juice will be very much beneficial.

If you have the extract of drumstick leaves along with honey and tender coconut is useful to regain the strength and reduce the weakness.

The kids who are facing eye nerves weakness, drumstick leaves juice and honey mixture is advised to take at night before going to bed.

Take Drumstick leaves recipe weekly three times are helpful in reducing high blood pressure.

Drumstick leaves juice, cucumber juice and carrot juice along with a pinch of rock salt is best remedy for treating excretory infections.

So We can grow ithis excellent tree even in the cement pot or clay pots. Whenever we need , we can pluck the leaves of Moringa and use in cooking dishes and get benefited.