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Botanical Name |
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Cuminum cyminum |
English
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Cumin |
Synonym(s) |
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Cuminum odorum (Salisb.), Cuminum hispanicum. Merat. |
Family |
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Apiaceae |
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General Info
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Its stem is slender and branched, rarely exceeding 1 foot in height and somewhat angular. The leaves are divided into long, narrow segments and are of a deep green colour, generally turned back at the ends. The upper leaves are nearly stalkless, but the lower ones have longer leaf-stalks. The flowers are small, rose-coloured or white, in stalked umbels with only four to six rays. The seeds are oblong in shape, thicker in the middle, compressed laterally about 5 mm long, and bristle and almost straight. They have nine fine ridges, overlapping as many oil channels. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antibacterial, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, carminative, galactogogue, poultice, stimulant and stomachic. |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Cumaldehyde, perilla aldehyde, cumin alcohol, α- and β-pinene (21%), dipentene, p-cymene and β-phellandrene were found. |
Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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As a remedy for colic and dyspeptic headache, as a cure for stitches and pains in the side caused by the sluggish congestion of indolent parts. It is bruised and applied externally in the form of a plaster for wounds. Used in the treatment of insomnia, bloating, cough, diarrhea, indigestion, morning sickness, colds and fevers and to improve milk production in nursing mothers and also as a general tonic to the whole digestive system, it is used in the treatment of flatulence and bloating, reducing intestinal gas and relaxing the gut as a whole (seeds); Ground into a powder and mixed into a paste with onion juice, it has been applied to scorpion stings. |
| Reference |
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 Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
The Himalaya Drug Company.
Bentley and Trimen, Medicinal Plants.
Grieve M. A Modern Herbal (1931) (www.botanical.com). |
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