Bitter Cumin
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Other Names : Centratherum anthelminticum, Kali jiri
Health Benefits and Uses of Bitter Cumin
Bitter cumin is used extensively in traditional medicine to treat a range of diseases from vitiligo to hyperglycemia. It is considered to be antiparasitic and antimicrobial and science has backed up claims of its use to reduce fever or as a painkiller.
- It is widely used as folk medicine for diabetes in Rayalaseema, India and a popular ingredient in Ayurvedic medicine.
- In other places, C anthelminticum has been traditionally applied as anthelmintic, stomachic, digestive, diuretic, tonic, alterative, anti-phlegmatic, anti-asthmatic, anti-phlegmatic treatment, as well as a therapeutic agent for cough, diarrhea, helmint, skin diseases, ulcers, leucoderma and fevers.
- Cancer : chloroform fraction of C. anthelminticum (CACF) possessed higher anti-cancer activity compared to methanolic and hexane fractions (Arya et al., 2012a). CACF effectively inhibited growth of A549 (lung), PC-3 (prostate), MCF-7 (breast) cancer cells with IC50 values of 31.42±5.4, 22.61±1.7 and 8.1±0.9 μg mL-1, respectively. In addition, we showed that CACF was less toxic to normal hepatic cells WRL-68 (54.93±8.3 μg mL-1).
Used in Patent medicine
References
- Nadkarni and Nadkarni, 1955; Chopra et al., 1956; Kirtikar and Basu, 1987; Nagaraju and Rao, 1989; Amir and Chin, 2011; Arya et al., 2012a.
- https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi=ijp.2013.211.226
