From Tomb To Table: Cumin's Health Benefit's Rediscovered

'Traded along spice routes separating ancient cultures by vast distances, spices like cumin were once worth their weight in gold. Has modern science now revealed why, beyond their remarkable aesthetic value, they were so highly prized?

Many spices are perfectly happy living a charmed life as seasonings, peppering things generously with flavor, and without ever arousing the suspicion that they may be capable of profound acts of healing, as well.

Meet cumin, a member of the parsley family, which is to say from a well-known family of healers native to the central Mediterranean region (southern Italy, Algeria and Tunisia).'

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Black Cumin Seeds

 

'Nigella sativa is one the
most revered medicinal seeds in history. The best seeds come from
Egypt where they grow under almost perfect conditions in oases
where they are watered until the seed pods form. Black cumin seeds
were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Though black cumin seeds
are mentioned in the Bible as well as in the words of the Prophet
Mohammed, they were not carefully researched until about forty
years ago. Since this time, more than 200 studies have been conducted
in universities.'



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'According to tradition, the Prophet Muhammad described black seed as a
cure for every disease except death. The great physician Ibn Sina
(980–1037), better known as Avicenna, stated that black seed works as an
expectorant, stimulates the body’s energy and helps overcome fatigue
and dispiritedness.' 



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Black Cumin and Pancreatic Cancer

Black Cumin Seeds

'... I was intrigued when I got a press release a couple days ago from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Researchers there have been studying black cumin (Nigella sativa) and discovered that a chemical in its oil called thymoquinone (which, by the way, is also present in the essential oil of thyme—hence the flavor similarity), is an anti-inflammatory that seems to inhibit the development of pancreatic cancer in lab studies.

Turns out, black cumin seeds and oil are used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern and Asian healers for a broad array of diseases, including some immune and inflammatory disorders, says Hwyda A. Arafat, MD, PhD, associate professor, departments of surgery and pathology, anatomy and cell biology at Jefferson Medical College.'


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