Moringa: latest herbal fad?

This article says that the lowly Malunggay plant (moringa oleifera) is being pushed by some development workers in Sierra Leone as a miracle plant:

It is unclear how the plant first came to Sierra Leone.

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) which has promoted its use in Ghana and Liberia says it first brought the seeds to Sierra Leone in 2001, later training some 150 farmers on how to cultivate it.

Freetown botanist Christian Jones, says: "It is likely that it was one Pakistani soldier serving in the UN Peace mission who discovered the presence of Moringa in the 1990s in the back yard of a house in the capital."

Catholic NGO Caritas recently led a campaign to popularise the use of Moringa by distributing samples in the northern city Makeni, urging some 2,000 residents to replant them in their back yards and farms.

Yeah, but I hate to be cynical, but yes, it's delicious and http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhigh in vitamins/anti oxidants, but unless they can make it a "fad" in the west and export it to the aging yuppies, I don't see how it will be any better for the folks than any other green vegetable.

On the other hand, we do eat it in the Philippines as a veggie.
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more HERE.

a recipe for tinolang manok with malunggay HERE.

Mungbean soup with shrimp and malunggay HERE.

I looked for a video recipe, but all of them seemed to be poor quality or in Tagalog (not even in Taglish).

And for how it is used in traditional medicine in India, check out THIS page.