Uses of moringa oleifera seeds

Moringa oleifera seeds are widely used in the manufacture of oil, which is an important ingredient in organic personal care products. The oil extracted from the seeds is used safeguard skin from pimples, blackheads, acne, rosacea, etc. It can bring natural glow and improve skin tone. The oil is useful for stopping hair loss while providing nourishment to hair follicles.

Antioxidant properties can keep our internal organs to stay healthy. Vitamin C and E in the seed oil acts as antioxidant can improve the circulation of blood throughout scalp, which stimulates our hair follicles and aids them to absorb more nutrients. As a result, voluminous hair growth occurs.

Vitamin A and zinc in this can increase hair growth remarkably. Vitamin A can provide care to scalp and hair tissues by repairing, maintaining and nourishing, them in the correct way. Zinc in the seeds/oil improve immune system and keeps the sebaceous glands on our scalp unclogged. Both these nutrients can speed up the growth of our hair effectively. This oil is used up to 5-6% in various hair care formulations.

The seed oil has emollient property and can make the pores smaller this will keep the skin pores clean. Skin becomes from soft and no sagging. In the absence of wrinkles no bacteria or fungi can stay on the skin. Antioxidants in the oil can stop the activity of free radicals. Free radicals are responsible for skin issues, wrinkles, age marks etc. Personal care products with the tree seed oil have been highly effective.

When you take this with pods in the morning after breakfast, you will experience weight loss. It is ideal to start with 2 seeds and you will be able to find the difference within 15 days. It should be rinsed in salt and water mixture at least twice. It can be roasted slightly and powdered. This powder can be added to any one of the vegetable soup. If you could get fresh drumstick pods, you can incorporate them in your vegetarian or non vegetarian recipe.

In the tropical countries, where the tree is native, people used the fruit pods in cuisine. It was safely used as they will be taken during day time only. It is highly effective in detoxifying the body. Therefore the seeds based recipes are not taken for the dinner.

They found that both Moringa oleifera and Moringa Stenopetala species gave similar performance to alum in the clarification of highly turbid waters. But in low turbidity waters, effectiveness of the moringa oleifera tree seeds was less as observed by trials. Research is going on to find the various applications of these nutrition rich and unique tree seeds.