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Botanical Name :
Nigella sativa
Sanskrit Name:
kalajaji
English Name :
Small fennel
Family : Ranunculaceae
Part used: Seeds
Description of Nigella sativa:
It is a native of southern Europe. It is found all over India
and is specially seen in the eastern region. It is commercially
cultivated in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Assam.
It has a small shrub and attains a height of 1 ½ feet. Leaves
are 1 to 2 inch long and are spear shaped. Flowers are light
yellow in color and are of one inch in diameter, single and has
long stamen. Flowers are round, triangular, black colored, and
aromatic, wrinkled and has many seeds in them. Seeds pulp is
white. Flowers appear in early winters and fruits in winters.
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Chemical Constituents:
The seeds contain a brown colored volatile oil 0.5 % to 1.6 %
and red colored stable oil which is 31 %. Besides this it
contains albumin, sugar, carbonic acid, seponin, melanthin,
Arabic acid, a bitter compound namd nigellin, resins, tennins
and ash 7 %. It contains a volatile oil carvone 45 to 60 %, D-lymonine
and cymine. It also contains nigellone, which is helpful in
supporting the respiratory tract.
Pharmacology:
It is vata and kapha suppressant and pitta
aggravator. Due to its rough and sharp properties it helps in
scrapping the body fats and due to its hot potency it is helpful
in suppressing a pain and inflammation. It helps in normalizing
the digestive tract as it is light in nature. Due to its pungent
taste it is helpful in suppressing any kind of infection in the
body. Due to its hot potency it is helpful in expelling out the
excess of mucus that gets accumulated in respiratory tract. It
also acts as diuretic in nature and also promotes sweating (diphoratic)
due to its hot potency.
Medicinal Uses:
It is use for different treatment such as
Skin related problems, Hair fall, Head ache, Rhinitis, Piles,
Pain, Tastelessness, Indigestion, Abdominal distension, Cough,
Asthma, Pains in flanks, Painful parturition, Decrease milk
secretion in lactating mothers, Dysurea, Fever.
Herbal Extract packing:
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