|
|
| |
|
|
Cumin is used worldwide in cooking , especially in the middle East, India, and Mexico where it was introduced by the Spanish. It's popularity in the US rose with the increased interest in Mexican food and other ethnic dishes. Cumin is aromatic, containing up to 4 percent essential oil, warm, spicy and slightly sweet.
Along with being one of the worlds most popular cooking spices, cumin has an ancient history of use as a medicinal plant. In traditional herbal medicine, cumin is used as a diuretic and to treat stomach upset and flatulence. 1 In South Asia, cumin tea (dry seeds boiled in hot water) is used to distinguish false-labours (due to gas) from real labor. In Sri Lanka, toasting cumin seeds and then boiling them in water makes a tea used to soothe acute stomach problems. Cumin seeds are also being studied for their have anti-carcinogenic properties.2
| |
Related Species
Do not confuse cumin with sweet cumin, which is a common name for anise (Pimpinella anisum). Black cumin, or black seed oil (Nigella sativa) is not botanically related to cumin. |
|
| Side Effects: |
|---|
| GRAS - The oil may have photosensitizing effects |
|
Preparation Methods :Cumin is a major component of curry and chili powders, the seeds may be toasted or used fresh, and added to teas.
 Remedies using : Cumin
|
|
|
Buy Bulk Cumin Herbs, Extracts, Capsules and Oils
|
|
|
|
Certified Organic Cumin Seed | | Cuminum cyminum Origin- Turkey
Whole or powdered seeds |
 Organic Cumin Seed
|
|
|
|
|
Digestion/Indigestion *
|
|
|
|
From Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
- Flowers:small, rose-coloured or white, in stalked umbels
- Plant Class:Flowering annual- 1-2 feet tall
- Leaves: The leaves are divided into long, narrow segments like Fennel, but much smaller and are of a deep green colour, generally turned back at the ends
- Fruit: Seeds, yellow-brown, resemble caraway
- Preferred Habitat:Hot, arid climate
- Flowering Season:June, July
- Distribution:Asia, India, Mediterranean
|
|
 Cumin is mentioned in Isaiah xxvii. 25 and 27, and Matthew xxiii. 23, and in the works of Hippocrates and Dioscorides. From Pliny we learn that the ancients took the ground seed medicinally with bread, water or wine, and that it was accounted the best of condiments.3 |
 During the Middle Ages it was believed that cumin kept chickens and lovers from wandering. It was also believed that a happy life awaited the bride and groom who carried cumin seed throughout the wedding ceremony. 2 |
|
- Mountain Rose Herbs (07-15-2008)
- Wikipedia
- Grieve, Maude Modern Herbal (1931)
| |
|
|
Medicinal Healing Herbs : Properties and Uses
|
Common Misspellings:
|
|
|
Buy organic bulk herbs, spices, oils and teas at Mountain Rose Herbs |
 |
|
|
