Moringa Oleifera Tea Recipe To Treat Diabetes Mellitus

In Indonesia, Moringa Oleifera has known as one of the nutritious plants to treat the disease, also called Moringa or drumstick tree. Moringa Oleifera tea recipe to treat diabetes mellitus has long used by our parents as one of the herbal diabetes. But now slowly herbs like this are rarely used, because the number of drug packaging products.

Moringa Oleifera has height of 7 to 11 meters, the leaves round eggs with small sizes compounded in multiple stems. Moringa Oleifera leaves usually used as a vegetable or traditional medicine. Characteristics of Moringa Oleifera flower is yellowish white, green flower hood caps and blooms throughout the year. While the fruit triangular elongated, this fruit also often used for cooking materials.

Moringa Oleifera Tea Recipe

Nutritional content in every 100 grams of Moringa Oleifera leaves or around 5 cups, there are various vitamins and chemical compounds that are important for health. Moringa Leaf Oleifera tea recipe considered the most nutritious part, as a source of vitamin B, vitamin C, provitamin A as beta-carotene, vitamin K, manganese, and protein. This value is considered high in nutrients if consumed equivalent to 100 grams.

Some people who consider important health, they dry the leaves of Moringa Oleifera to used as a herbal diabetes. This dried leaves will brewed into hot water for a few minutes, just like in tea making. The several benefits of Moringa Oleifera leaves are as follows:

1. Moringa Oleifera leaves believed to reduce weight by means of brewing. It also has a great effect on adding energy and essential nutrients to the body.
2. Tea to overcome digestive problems and improve the function of excretion, so that the kidneys and liver function works optimally.
3. Consumption of Moringa Oleifera leaves for 30 consecutive days, can help to cure heart disease and diabates.
4. Moringa Oleifera leaf is also useful as an anti-cancer, Moringa Oleifera leaf extract will inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

There are many more benefits of Moringa Oleifera leaves that not known to people. The following are moringa oleifera tea recipe for diabetes mellitus:

1. Take 15 grams of fresh Moringa Oleifera leaves, then wash and put in a pot made of clay or ceramic.
2. Add 3 cups water (mineral water) and boil until the remaining 1 cup. Wait a moment until the water cools, then strain.
3. Drink it a glass, 3 times a day. For the second and third teas, use the remaining stew. The remaining stew should used up to three times. Repeat the making of this herb regularly for 2 to 4 weeks.

Reference

• Effect of Malunggay (Moringa oleifera) Capsules on Lipid and Glucose Levels. By Acta Medica Philippina, 2013.
• Effect of season and production location on antioxidant activity of Moringa oleifera leaves grown in Pakistan. Publish by Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2006.
• Moringa Oleifera, imag courtesy of wikimedia commons.