Black Seeds Shown Positive Results Against Bowel Cancer and Breast Cancer

Black seed is an herb with powerful antioxidant properties. Laboratory tests showed that this plant may take effect in the fight against certain cancers.

Nigella sativa, in English under the black cumin, an annual plant native flowering of southwestern Asia. The spicy seeds of the plant are used to add the flavor to many recipes. Black cumin is a spice, essential drugs. For centuries, was part of traditional herbal medicines in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Black cumin is for their anti-hypertensive, bloating, and anthelmintic. Expressed as to the health as an attachment and an oil is, in health promotion and maintenance of the liver, respiratory and renal function and bowel and useful in supporting the immune and circulatory system and as a tonic for overall well-being.

Black cumin is a powerful antioxidant, it is of interest to the research against cancer. Antioxidants have been found very successful in preventing the progression of certain cancers. Antioxidants protect the body by neutralizing free radicals, the termination of the evacuation response. Thymoquinone a primary active component of black cumin is known for its inhibitory effect on oxidative stress. When chemotherapy was the drug of choice in comparison thymoquinone chemotherapy remarkable answers.

Anticancer Research
A study was conducted to evaluate and compare the effects of extracts of black cumin in the cells of colon cancer. The viability of the cells, the number of cells, cell morphology and metabolism compared to control groups and treatment. The results showed a significant decrease in the number of cancer cells in the groups with the extract, comparable to results obtained treated with chemotherapy. The small number of cells show that extracts of black cumin oil may have some important side effects of chemotherapy.

Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that thymoquinone the growth of cancer cells blocked in the pancreas and killed by strengthening the process of programmed cell death (apoptosis). The results suggest that there thymoquinone a prevention strategy in patients receiving surgery and chemotherapy or people experienced with a high risk of developing cancer may be used.

A water treatment plant, including seeds of black cumin has been recommended for cancer patients by practitioners of traditional medicine in Sri Lanka. Research has shown that short-term treatment with herbal decoctions significantly inhibited diethylnitrosamine-mediated expression of glutathione S-transferase in rat liver. A subsequent investigation was conducted to determine whether the long-term treatment with the decoction would be in blocking the progression of tumors or histopathological changes successfully lead to an open tumor development.