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Black Cumin
BOTANICAL NAME:
FAMILY:
SYNONYM(S):
URDU NAME:
REGIONAL NAME:
- Bengali: Kala Jira, Mugrele
- Persian: Siyah danah, Shuniz
- Hindi: Kalonji, Kala Jira
- Pashto: Orawanza
- Sanskrit: Kunchi, Knishana Jirka
- Sindhi: Kalonji
- Arabic: Kamune-Asvad
UNANI/TIBBI NAME:
- Kali ziri, Gandna, kalonji
ENGLISH NAME:
- Small Fennel, Black Cumin
HABITAT:
- Cultivated in Punjab and NWFP
DESCRIPTION:
- A herb of 30-60 cm
- Leaves 2-3 pinnate, 1cm long
- Flowers of pale blue colour on long peduncles, sepals ovate, acute and clawed.
- Seeds 2mm long are black triangular
- Kernel white in colour
PART USED:
TASTE:
- Slightly Bitter, Sharp Taste
TEMPERAMENT:
PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:
- Seeds are sown in hilly areas in March and in the plains in October. It is ready for harvesting by the end of April.
PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:
- The plants are cut, sun dried, thrashed and fruits collected
CONSTITUENTS:
- Essential oil
- Glucoside
- Melanthin
- Melanthigenin
- Fixed oil
- Saponin
- Nigellene
- Palmatic acid
- Mynistic
- Stearic and oleic and linolenic acid
SUBSTITUTES:
- Anisoon/Anisi (pimpinella anisum)
ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:
Pharmacological action:
- Diuretic, diaphoretic
- Antibilious
- Stomachic
- Stimulant
- Carminative
- Digestive
- Emmenagogue
- Abortifacient
- Glactogogue
Therapeutic uses:
- Remedy for worms
- Increase menstrual flow and secretion of milk
- In cough
- Jaundice
- Lungs complaints
- Intermittent fever
- Vomiting
- Paralysis
- Eye sores
- Roasted bruised seeds tied in muslin cloth on inhalation are said to relieve headache and cold
DOSES:
CORRECTIVES:
- Kateera/tragacanth (sterculia urens)
IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:
- Hab hilteet
- Malun kalkalanj
- Jawanish shoneez
- Zimad bars
- Majun muhazzil
- Qairuti arad krasna
- Roghan kalan
- Roghan shafa
ASTROLOGY:
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