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Botanical Name: Cuminum cyminum L. Common name: Jeera, Cumin, Read More
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Botanical Name: |
Cuminum cyminum L. |
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Common name: |
Jeera, Cumin, |
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Plant family: |
Apiaceae |
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Genus: |
Cuminum |
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Appearance/Color: |
A thin, pale yellow-greenish to brownish liquid. |
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Odor: |
A middle note with a medium strength of aroma, it has a characteristic warm, spicy and musky scent. |
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Blends With: |
Angelica Root, Caraway, Lavender, Rosemary, Chamomile, and essential oils with an oriental flavor. |
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Origin: |
India |
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Source: |
Seed |
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Method of Extraction: |
Steam Distillation |
Spices are an important bio-nutrients for both food ingredients and nutritional supplements. From ancient times, spices have been used as food additives to enhance the taste and be flavor of food. Apart from these uses, spices also have numerous medicinal properties and used to treat several disorders that form an important part of the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia (Indian System of Medicine). Spices have increasingly larger role to play in Indian recipes as the bactericidal, bacteriostatic, fungistatic, antifertility, anti-helminthic and other medicinal properties and also believed to aid digestion. In the traditional Indian system of medicine, more than a few spices and herbs have hold and possess several medicinal properties such as antithrombotic, anti-atherosclerotic, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-aggregatory, eicosanoid inhibitor.1 Cumin is popular as culinary spice and used in folklore therapy because the presence of aromatic substances in the herb. Cumin comes under the category of traditional spice from middle ages. It was too much popular, because of its peppery flavor. During the middle ages in Europe, cumin became as an icon of love and fidelity and also some people wants to carry cumin in their pockets to give in wedding ceremonies. Cumin is a small hairy, brownish in color, boat shaped seed plant that have a spicy sweet aroma property and powerful slightly bitter and pungent flavor.
Cumin seeds are obtained from the herb Cuminum cyminum, native from East Mediterranean to South Asia belonging to the family Apiaceae—a member of the parsley family. Cumin seeds are oblong and yellow–grey. Cumin seeds are liberally used in several cuisines of many different food cultures since ancient times, in both whole and ground forms. In India, cumin seeds have been used for thousands of years as a traditional ingredient of innumerable dishes including kormas and soups and also form an ingredient of several other spice blends. Besides food use, it has also many applications in traditional medicine. In the Ayurvedic system of medicine in India, cumin seeds have immense medicinal value, particularly for digestive disorders. They are used in chronic diarrhea and dyspepsia.
Although the seeds of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) are widely used as a spice for their distinctive aroma, they are also commonly used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of diseases including chronic diarrhoea and dyspepsia, acute gastritis, diabetes, and cancer.
Cumin Oil in Pharma
Cumin seeds are nutritionally rich; they provide high amounts of fat (especially monounsaturated fat), protein, and dietary fibre. Vitamins B and E and several dietary minerals, especially iron, are also considerable in cumin seeds. Cuminaldehyde, cymene, and terpenoids are the major volatile components of cumin. Cumin has been used as anti-inflammatory, diuretic, carminative, and antispasmodic, treatment of toothaches and epilepsy and also as an aid for treating dyspepsia, jaundice, diarrhea, flatulence, and indigestion. Cumin powder has been used as a poultice and suppository and has been smoked in a pipe and taken orally.
Essence of Cumin Oil
Cumin has a distinctive strong flavour. Its warm aroma is due to its essential oil content. Its main constituent of aroma compounds are cuminaldehyde and cuminic alcohol. In traditional medicines, cumin was a major component of curry and chili powder that was used to flavor a variety of commercial food products. Cumin has also been crushed and mixed with foods such as fish and meat, and the seeds sprinkled on bread and cakes. The oil, derived by steam distillation, is used to flavor alcoholic beverages, desserts, and condiments. It is also used as a fragrant component of creams, lotions, and perfumes. . It is one of the popular spices regularly used as a flavoring agent.
COMMON USAGE
· Regulates digestion
· Cures piles
· Prevents diabetes
· Treats asthma and bronchitis
· Fights common cold
· Increases lactation
· Prevents anemia
· Decreases cognitive disorders
· Skin care
· Boosts immunity
· Prevents cancer
Ingredients:
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S.No |
Key Constituents |
Strength (%) |
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Cuminaldehyde |
19.8-40.0 |
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2 |
g-terpinene |
11.2-32.0 |
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3 |
b-pinene |
4.4-17.7 |
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4 |
p-cymene |
5.9-17.5 |
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5 |
p-mentha-1,3-dien-7-al |
7.2-3.2 |
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6 |
p-mentha-1,4-dien-7-al |
2.1-8.6 |
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7 |
b-myrcene p a-phellandrene |
0.5-7.3 |
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8 |
p-menth-3-en |
0.5-2.5 |
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9 |
Cuminyl alcohol |
0.2-2.2 |
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10 |
a-pinene |
0.2-1.2 |
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11 |
Isocaryophyllene |
0.1-1.1 |
· Hazards: Phototoxic (moderate risk).
· Contraindications (dermal): If applied to the skin at over maximum use level, skin must not be exposed to sunlight or sunbed rays for 12 hours.
· Maximum dermal use level 0.4%
Organ-specific effects
· Adverse skin reactions
Undiluted cumin oil was moderately irritating to rabbits, but was not irritating to mice; tested at 4% on 25 volunteers it was neither irritating nor sensitizing. Distinct phototoxic effects were reported for cumin oil, but none for cuminaldehyde. RIFM apparently reported a 5% NOAEL for phototoxicity in human volunteers.
Systemic effects
o Acute toxicity: Cumin oil acute oral LD50 in rats 2.5 mL/kg; acute dermal LD50 in rabbits 3.56 mL/kg.
o Arcinogenic/ anticarcinogenic potential: Cumin oil was not mutagenic in the Ames test, and did not produce CA in Chinese hamster fibroblasts. Cumin oil dosedependently inhibited aflatoxin B1-induced adducts in calf thymus DNA, in the presence of rat liver microsomes. It increased glutathione S-transferase activity in the stomach, liver and esophagus of mice by more than 78%, and significantly inhibited B[a]P-induced squamous cell stomach carcinoma.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION
· Toxicity: No additional data available.
· Persistence & degradability: No additional data available.
· Bioaccumulation Potential: No additional data available.
· Mobility in soil: No additional data available.
· Results of PBT and vPvB Assessment: No additional data available.
· Other adverse effects: Do not allow product to enter streams, sewers or other waterways.
