Black seeds (Nigella sativa) are used in a variety of traditional curries, pickles, breads, and more. These tiny seeds are not only used in cooking, but they can also have impressive effects on your health. Especially when it comes to your immune system! Let’s take a look at the benefits of black seed oil.
Black seed oil heals
Black cumin seeds are tiny, elegantly shaped and matte black in color. The delicate pale blue and white flowers of the mother plant can be found growing in regions all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Western Asia and the Middle East.
They may be known by a variety of names (including black seeds, black cumin, black cumin, shonaiz, kalajira, kalonji). However, no matter how you know them, black seeds have a rich history when it comes to health. Many cultures, especially those in the Middle East, traditionally believe that black seed oil can cure a variety of ailments.
Benefits of black seed oil in Islam
Throughout the Islamic and Arab world, black seeds are considered a universal healer. They have been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years. Interestingly, they were mentioned by none other than the Prophet Muhammad, who claimed that black seeds could cure "everything except death itself."
But this is not the only example of a historical figure extolling the benefits of black seeds. Many others agreed, including the Greek physician Hippocrates, the natural philosopher Pliny the Elder, and the pharmacologist, physician, and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides. The latter is the author of the five-volume encyclopedia De Materia Medica, which describes herbal remedies and was relied upon for over 1,500 years.
If that weren't enough, black seeds are also mentioned in the Bible as a medicine. What's more, archaeologists have found them in the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.