For many centuries, seeds of Nigella sativa (black cumin), a dicotyledon of the Ranunculaceae family, have been used as a seasoning spice and food additive in the Middle East and Mediterranean areas. Traditionally, the plant is used for asthma, hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, cough, bronchitis, headache, eczema, fever, dizziness, and gastrointestinal disturbances. The literature regarding...

The Essential oil (EO) of Nigella sativa (black cumin) was extracted from the crude oil and the volatile constituents were characterized using gas chromatographic analysis. The EO was formulated in water-based microemulsion system and its antibacterial activity against six pathogenic bacteria was evaluated using the agar well diffusion method. This activity was compared with two other well know...

Objectives: Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic diseases in the world. It affects 6.6% of world population and about 3 million individuals in Iran. Nowadays chemical and herbal medicines are widely prescribed to cure obesity. In Iran, cumin (Cuminum Cyminum L.) is a plant used in traditional medicine to cure obesity, and some of the new studies have suggested that cumin has a role in d...

Black cumin seed oil (MBJH) ( Nigella sativa L .) is a well-known herb with pharmacology activities such as anticancer and anti-thrombocytopenia. The limitation of MBJH has poor absorption when using oral dosage form. liquid SNEDDS (Self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system) an alternative formulation. However, the disadvantage liquid-SNEDDS MJBH was interaction between active ingredients soft ...

Abstract Black cumin ( Nigella sativa ) seed (BS) oil has high a peroxide value (PV) and acid (AV). In this study, BS was incorporated with different levels of rosemary extracts as natural antioxidant source before after pretreatment by microwaves. Based on the extraction yield (33%), PV (8.4 meq O 2 per kg oil), AV (3.2 mg KOH gram optimum condition determined microwave radiation for 120 s and...

Emulsion fat products are a promising direction for the enrichment of unsaturated groups with fatty acids. This is possible by introducing rarely used types vegetable oils into formulations these products. Due to fact that acid composition differs depending on properties raw materials from which it produced, there need its analysis more accurate formulation emulsion product. As result conducted...

The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a specific composition of a traditional herbal preparation (DurrDerma) in adult patients with moderate to severe skin psoriasis. The preparation is a newly developed topical combination containing plant-based extracts traditionally used in skin disease as black cumin, olive oil, tea tree oil, cocoa butter completed by vitamin A and ...