Bulk Herbs: Cumin seed - powder

Cumin is a seed that has been used since antiquity. Its health benefits and medicinal uses were well known even then. It helps stimulate the secretion of enzymes from the pancreas which can help absorb nutrients into the system. It has also been shown to boost the power of the liver's ability to detoxify the human body.

Cumin also makes a great tonic for the body even if you don’t have a specific ailment to cure. It is said to increase the heat in the body thus making metabolism more efficient and along with being a powerful kidney and liver herb, can help boost your immune system.

The health benefits of cumin include the following:

Digestion: Cumin is extremely good for digestion and related problems. The very smell of it activates the salivary glands in our mouth, facilitating the primary digestion of the food. Due to its stimulating properties, Thymol, a compound present in cumin, does the same to the glands which secrete acids, bile and enzymes responsible for complete digestion of the food in the stomach and the intestines. Cumin also relieves from you from gas troubles and thereby improves digestion and appetite.

Piles: The main reason behind piles is constipation added with infections in the wound in the anal tract, which again is caused by constipation. Cumin, because of its dietary fiber content and carminative, stimulating, anti fungal and anti microbial properties due to the presence of essential oils, acts as a natural laxative in powdered form, helps the healing up of infections or wounds in the digestive & excretory system and speeds up digestion too.

Insomnia: This is a very peculiar property of cumin. It is a stimulant as well as a relaxant at the same time. This property cannot be attributed to a single component alone, but studies show that a proper intake of vitamins (particularly B-complex) and a good digestion help induce a sound sleep. Cumin helps both of these.

Common Cold: The common cold is a viral infection which affects our body frequently when our immune system goes weak. Again, the essential oils present in cumin act as disinfectants and help fight the viral infections which cause common cold. Cumin also does not let cough formations in the respiratory system as it dries up the excess mucus. Cumin is rich in iron and has considerable amount of vitamin-C, which are essential for a good immunity and keeping infections away.

Lactation: It is rich in iron and thus very good for lactating mothers as well as women who are undergoing menses or who are pregnant, since they are more in need of iron than others. Moreover, cumin is said to help ease and increase secretion of milk in lactating women due to presence of Thymol, which tends to increase secretions from glands, including the mammary glands that are in charge of producing milk. Cumin has remarkable amount of calcium (above 900 mg per 100 grams) which accounts to over 90% of our daily requirement of calcium. This calcium is an important constituent of milk, thus another reason cumin is very good for lactating mothers.

Anemia: As stated above, cumin is very rich in iron (above 66 mg. in each 100 grams) which is more than 5 times the daily requirement of iron for an adult. This iron is the main constituent of hemoglobin in the red blood corpuscles of blood. It is hemoglobin which transfers oxygen (as oxide of iron) to the body-cells and whose deficiency causes anemia. So, cumin can be a nutritious additive to daily diet for anemic people.

Skin Disorders: Almost all of us know that vitamin-E is good for skin. It keeps the skin young and glowing. This vitamin is also present in abundance in cumin. The essential oils present in this have disinfectant and anti fungal properties. This prevents any microbial and fungal infection from affecting the skin.

Boils: Boils are just outlets for removal of toxic substances and foreign matters such as microbes etc. from the body. So, they are rather symptoms which show that a lot of toxic substances have accumulated in the body. Here cumin can help you a great deal. Those who regularly use cumin in food have been seen keeping free from boils, rashes, pimples etc. Components such as Cuminaldehyde, Thymol, phosphorus etc. are good de-toxicants which help in the regular removal of toxins from the body.

Cancer: Cumin itself has detoxifying and chemo-preventive properties and accelerates secretion of detoxifying and anti-carcinogenic enzymes from the glands, as it does to other secretions. As well, it has anti-oxidants like vitamin-C and vitamin-A in it, which, besides having countless other benefits, have anti-carcinogenic properties too. It is particularly good for cancer of colon.

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• 5 lbs. - 9 3/4 lbs. = 5% off
• 10 lbs. - 24 3/4 lbs. = 10% off
• 25 lbs. - 59 3/4 lbs. = 20% off
• 60 lbs. - 99 3/4 lbs. = 30% off
• 100 lbs. + = 40% off
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