"That"s right, we still also mash the leaves to put on cuts," Rasta interrupted. As a hired driver, he often visits other Indonesian islands. "The only people I know who don"t eat moringa are the West Javanese," he recalled. "They believe so strongly in the magical cleansing power of moringa that they use it to wash dead bodies before burial. They think it"s very strange that we Balinese eat it!"