Review
This is the FIRST hard-bound book on the MORINGA that contains most of the relevant and up to date information you really need to know about this miracle plant. The book will give inspiration and product ideas to entrepreneurs and manufacturers of food and skincare items on the use of the Moringa plant as an ingredient in their products. --Ignacio C. Paliza (Harvard Graduate)
Great book. Knowledge is truly power. If you are into alternative medicine , plant medicine , botanical medicine or herbal medicine and you are looking for plants that contain a powerhouse of important nutrients that will enhance your health naturally without the side effects of chemical-laden drugs -then this book on the Moringa will empower you with so much information. It discusses all the vitamins, minerals, amino acids,phytonutrients, chlorophyll, antioxidant content of the Moringa plant . --Marita V. Pierce (Educator & Writer) ,California
This Book is the MOST comprehensive visual reference guidebook on the MORINGA plant that is currently available in the market. It is also the only book so far on the Moringa plant that has full color photographs not only of the plant itself and its different parts but as well as several Moringa by-products from food to skincare items. If you want to really learn a lot on what the Moringa plant is all about, then you really need to get this book. --Ricky Del Fuerte, MD (Cardiologist) --Ricky Del Fuerte, MD (Cardiologist), Manila
About the Author
LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE Luis R. Villafuerte is a certified plant enthusiast. For the past 15 years, he has been extensively involved in cultivating and propagating flowering plants, fruit trees and medicinal herbs. He is actively engaged in organic and eco farming. He has been promoting Moringa farming in his home province of Camarines Sur, Philippines where he has served as
Governor from 1986 to 1992 and 1995 to 2004. He is the incumbent
Congressman of District II in Camarines Sur, Philippines.
He is the principal author of a legislative bill in the Congress of the Philippines proposing to establish the Moringa Research and Development Authority He is a graduate of Associate of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines, he is a recipient of special academic conferments: Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa from the University of Mindanao and Doctor of Laws , Honoris Causa from the University of Northeastern Philippines.
He was elected as an Assemblyman in the Philippine National Assembly in 1978 and was re-elected in 1984. He served as Minister of Trade of the Philippines in 1986 and was appointed as Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Government Reorganization by President Corazon C. Aquino.
He was the first President of the League of Provinces of the Philippines and National Chairman of the League for two successive terms, from 1998 to 2004. He has been chosen one of the Outstanding Governors of the Philippines and one of the most Outstanding Congressmen in the Philippines.
LALAINE VILLAFUERTE-ABONAL
Lalaine Villafuerte-Abonal graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines. She is the President of eAsia Outsourcing & Marketing Services based in California and founder of Coconut Republic and Plant Prescription product lines with her husband Larry.
Lalaine has 14 years of experience as a buying agent representing foreign buyers and was elected as the youngest officer and board of director of the Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines . She specializes in the sourcing of products made of indigenous materials such as abaca, coconut, bamboo, capiz shells, moringa and more...
Other books authored by Lalaine are: "COCONUT Philippines", "ABACA Philippines", " IT Outsourcing Opportunities in the Philippines" and "101 Lessons of A Buying Agent of Foreign Companies". Lalaine and her husband Larry, a doctor and healthcare executive presently reside in Pasadena, California.
