Moringa oleifera Lam.
Traditional Knowledge
Useful plant parts :
Leaf, bark, root, flower and seed
Uses in traditional medicine :
- Decoction of the root is taken to increase urination
- Crushed leaves are applied on glandular swellings
- Leaves are purgative and counteracts poisonous effects
- Fruit is used for liver and pancreatic diseases
- Leaves, bark, roots, flowers and seeds are used to cure fever, epilepsy, sores in the mouth and leprosy
- Roots are antiscorbutic and rubefacient and used to treat asthma, gout, rheumatism, enlarged spleen and liver, calculus ailments and dropsy
Scientific Research
Chemical constituents:
Benzyl carbamate derivatives: niazimicin, niazirin, 4(α-L-rhamnosyloxy)-benzyl isothiocyanate and glycerol-1-(9-octadecanoate) from seeds; alkaloid: vincosamide from leaves
Bioactivity :
Aqueous and alcohol extracts of leaves: hypocholesterolaemic, antioxidative; infusion of seed: antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and antidiuretic; niazimicin: antitumour; 4(α-L-rhamnosyloxy)-benzyl isothiocyanate: antimicrobial; alcohol extract of bark: reduces insulin resistance, antiulcer; vincosamide: cardioprotective
Clinical:
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