AJENUZ (ajenuz nigella sativa)

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	AJENUZ
	*ajenuz nigella sativa*

Name
AJENUZ

Scientific Name
ajenuz nigella sativa

AJENUZ

Castilian: ajenuz, neguilla

French: niguelle, naux cumin, quatre épices, toute épice

English: niguella, common fennel to flower, Roman to coriander, nutmeg to flower

Nigella Sativa, Commonly Known Like "Amor in the Niebla" A Beautiful Mean-Eastern Grass With Many Uses

Biochemical Components: Alanine, arginine, asco'rbico-acid, asparagine, campesterol, carvone, cymene, cystine, dehydroascorbic acid, eicosadienoic acid, glucose, glutamic-acid, glycine, iron, isoleucine, leucine, D-limonene, linoleic-acid, linolenico acid -, lisina, methionine, acid myristic, nigellin, nigellone, oleic acid, acid palmitico, fenilalanine, fitosterol, potassium, beta-sitosterol, acid stearic, stigmasterol, tannin.

The name of "amor in niebla" it describes this exquisite plant poetically. In garden, one one imagines the etéricos spirits easily that they revolotean between his evanescentes flowers blanquiazules. Still the cases, that are so often used in dry adjustments of the flower, suggest a desapegado sense of the world of the exotic enchantment. It is possible that such delicately beautiful grass, with such powerful medicinal properties is so easily desraizada he himself in our gardens year after year?

With a position raised of the use through the Oriente.medio and to a somewhat smaller extension in Eastern India and other earth, the information about Nigella that I must to the Naturistas, the extraordinary description that the scientific Duke of Jim presented/displayed in his book does of the plant Medicinal Plants of the Bible. In it it describes Black Comino like a Muslim Miraculous Grass that, according to an Arab Proverb that says thus "en the black seed is the medicine for each disease except muerte".

A Turkish medico informs that the seeds are cultivated extensively and are dealt by ton within its country through the Northern Oriente.medio, Africa and India. The seeds are used like a condimento in the bread and sponge cakes and several candies and like pepper or combined with pepper as pimentón in sauces. The Ethiopians add other spices along with to condimentar local spirits. Another use occurs when there being dew articles to dress wool like a repelente of polilla.

Medicinal uses: Vermifuge and Tonic provide superior energy, allergies, coughs, resfríos, bronchitis, fever, influenza, respiratory asthma and enfisema for which she is very effective

In Oriente.medio they reunite a good amount of seeds and they grind to them until forming a paste and 'hahlava' combines with melted honey this is one; (an Mean-Eastern candy fact with seeds offered generally of sésamo and honey). Duke de Jim confirms his popular use in this form for a great variety of other diseases and conditions inclusively terrible indisposiciones like the calluses, the cancer, the cólico, the grains, the eruptions, the headache, the ictericia, the puerperal fever, the sclerosis, the skin, the mordedura of serpent, the stomach ache, the swellings, the tumors of the abdomen and eyes, and warts. In Algeria, the roasted seeds are combined with mantequilla for the cough and the honey and take for the cólico.

For superior respiratory conditions, at least some of their components have shown an action like antihistamine, that explains the positive effects in respiratory diseases of the superior aerial routes including the asthma, the bronchitis, and the cough. The oil that this in the seeds increases the flow of maternal milk what explains its popular use like galactagogo. In great amounts, nevertheless, the seeds have also been used an abortifacient.

A hot sharp grass is exceptional to have a positive effect in diseases of the liver as it is used in the Libano. Of course, one of more obvious uses is for the diarrea and disentería, combined with astringents. Externally the seeds can be mixed with a little flour doing emplasto and applied to abscesses directly, in the forehead for the headache, nasal ulcers, papaeras, and the reumatismo. The seeds are also a rich source of esteroles, specially beta-sitosterol, that is known to have the anticarcinogenica activity. This justifies its popular use for hardening and/or tumors of the abdomen, the eyes and the liver.

In India, the seeds of Nigella are combined with several laxative ones to alleviate to pain and cólico and to also help to kill and to expel parasites. The Mean-Eastern medicine of Unani affirms its properties of abortifacient and also it uses it like a diurético to alleviate cystitis, for coughs, mucosisdades, hidrofobia, the ictericia, the paralysis.

The contraindications: It does not take during the pregnancy.

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