MURINGAYILA MAHATMYAM

Once upon a time,it was conventional tradition in Kerala to include "Muringayila"&"Cheera in their regular

routine of food items.In almost every family people used to cultivateMuringa&Cheera in their compound

without use of any Pesticide for their grouth with the result people used to haveplenty of these two foodstuff

at home for daily or weekly use.

The fresh leaves were used for "Curry"&"Upperi" in large quantities following contemperory tradition.

Thus ,our old generation made food a pleasant event in their kitchen.

As a contrast,todaythere is hardly a family using these as a regular basis&instead  resorted to the use of

Hamburger&Chicken.The new generation do not like even seeing Cheera&Muringyila on their Dining Table.

It is too late now to make a revision of our food habits to include the leaffood in the daily routine especially

Muringayila.

Muringayila is in fact a PANDARA BOX of iron,vitamins&phospherous.Vitamin"A",Vitamin"B","C"&"D"

are richly present in Muringayila.This being so,why are we running around  by looking for Medical shops to

get tablets by spending a lot of money on them?.

More than double quantity of Calcium in Milk &almost thrice of Iron in Cheera is available in Muringayila.

In Ayurveda,the Muringayila is being used as an ingredient for medicines.The Muringakkaya&it's seeds

also contain Iron&Vitamins as much as Muringayila.

Doctors say that Muringayila in liquid form &using it as such could bring downBP to normalcy.

It is also recommended by Doctors that using Muringayila regularly is very helpful in building&developing

brainpower among Kids.Thios leaf also contain more protien than contain in Milk&Eggs.

This plant/Tree does not need much care to grow.They grow themselves with the available manure around

them.They grow in very good height.&has long life also .Although the parts of Muringa are so strong as

medicines ,the trunk of the tree is not as strong as other trees.So once has to be very careful while climbing

on them to fetch Muringakkaya.

In the traditional "SAMBAR" of old Kerala&old Madras State Muringkkaya is said to be an unavoidable

ingredient to contribute more to the taste of the Dish.

So with regular use of Muringayila&Kaaya could provide comfort to our health why are we running up

&down searching for Medical shops?.

The very sad  sight of axing & removing a Muringa tree from their compound by a known person,prompted me to write this Blog.

                                                   SreedharanMundanat
                                                      28th July,2012