CLARK FREEPORT – Hundreds of people are expected to attend the 5th National Moringa Congress which will be held at the Hilltop Function Hall at the Mimosa Leisure Estate here on November 21 and 22.
The event is initiated by Moringaling Philippines Foundation, Inc. (MPFI) and the Clark Development Corp. (CDC). Described as “a common tree with rare power,” moringa has now become a worldwide rave.
It solved the famine, hunger and malnutrition problem in Africa as a potent dietary aid. It cures the ill and even purifies water. It’s cheap and abundant in the Philippines.
It’s called moringa by its scientific name or more commonly known in Pilipino as malunggay or kalamunge in Kapampangan. At the preparatory press conference organized by the MPFI at the Montevista Hotel inside the Mimosa Leisure Estate here, Dr. Bernadette Arellano, founding chairperson of Moringaling Philippines, narrated her personal experience on how moringa helped her recuperate rapidly after undergoing a pancreatic operation three years ago.
Gina Matsuoka, MPFI treasurer, narrated how malunggay cured her Japanese husband from cirrhosis of the liver. She said after being diagnosed of the dreaded disease, her husband started eating malunggay seeds upon the recommendation of their Filipino friend.
“The seeds were bitter, my husband complained. But later he said they tasted sweet as soon as you washed them with water,” she said. “Truly a miracle plant,” Matsuoka quoted her husband, who is now well, as telling her.
Considered by the Johns Hopkins University as “the most nutritious plant on the surface of the earth,” the 5th Moringa Congress will have nutritional biochemist Dr. Jed Fahey as guest speaker.
