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PURE BLACK SEED POWDER (Black Cumin) 8oz 227g A natural powerhouse spice Serving Size: 1/4 Teaspoon or more 192 servings 1/4 teaspoon = 400 mg Touted for its Antiviral, Antibacterial and Antimicrobial properties. Immune support. Just Google: "active ingredients in black seed" YOU'LL BE AMAZED YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN THIS SOONER!!! See below 👇 Throw it on many foods. Use as you would use black pepper. On your salads, bread making, in olive oil for dipping, fresh mozzarella cheeses, pizza 🍕, yogurts, dishes, healthy shakes and so much more. Wonderful Smokey taste and texture. The oil in these seeds are priceless for those looking to support a healthy lifestyle. *Keep out of reach of children. Consult your physician if you're breastfeeding or lactating. Black cumin (Nigella sativa) and its constituent (thymoquinone): a review on antimicrobial effects. Abstract Nigella sativa seeds have wide therapeutic effects and have been reported to have significant effects against many things, but unfortunately we cannot list them on eBay. Thymoquinone (TQ) is one of the most active constituent and has different beneficial properties. Focus on antimicrobial effects, different extracts of N. sativa as well as TQ, have a broad antimicrobial spectrum including Gram-negative, Gram-positive bacteria, viruses, parasites, schistosoma and fungi. The effectiveness of N. sativa seeds and TQ is variable and depends on species of target microorganisms. The present review paper tries to describe all antimicrobial activities that have been carried out by various researchers. Keywords: Nigella sativa, Thymoquinone Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antimicrobial, Antiparasite, Antischistosoma, Antivirus Introduction Nigella sativa is an annual flowering plant. It grows to 2030 cm (7.911.8 inch) tall and has linear lanceolate leaves. The delicate flowers have 5-10 petals and the colors are usually yellow, white, pink, pale blue or pale purple. The fruit of plant is large and inflated capsule composed of 3-7 united follicles, that each of them has numerous seeds. The black colored seeds are flattened, oblong and angular, funnel shaped, with the length of 0.2 cm and 0.1 cm wide (1). This plant is known by numerous names, for example black cumin (English), black caraway seeds (USA), shonaiz (Persian) and kalajira (Bangali) (2). Chemical constituents Extensive studies were done to identify the composition of the black cumin seed, the ingredients of N. sativa seed includes: fixed oil, proteins, alkaloid, saponin and essential oil. The fixed oil (32-40 %) contains: unsaturated fatty acids which includes: arachidonic, eicosadienoic, linoleic, linolenic, oleic, almitoleic, palmitic, stearic and myristic acid as well as beta-sitosterol, cycloeucalenol, cycloartenol, sterol esters and sterol glucosides (3-5). The volatile oil (0.4-0.45 %) contains saturated fatty acids which includes: nigellone that is the only component of the carbonyl fraction of the oil, Thymoquinone (TQ), thymohydroquinone (THQ), dithymoquinone, thymol, carvacrol, and -pinene, d-limonene, d-citronellol, p-cymene volatile oil of the seed also contains: p-cymene, carvacrol, t-anethole, 4-terpineol and longifoline (3, 4, 6). Black cumin seed have two different forms of alkaloids: isoquinoline alkaloid that includes: nigellicimine, nigellicimine n-oxide and pyrazol alkaloid that includes: nigellidine and nigellicine (3, 4). The nutritional compositions of N. sativa are vitamins, carbohydrates, mineral elements, fats and proteins that include eight or nine essential amino acids. By sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) the fractionation of whole N. sativa seeds was done which shows the bands ranged from 94 to 100 kDa molecular mass (7). Black cumin seeds also have saponin and alpha hederine and in trace amount has carvone, limonene and citronellol, as well as provide relatively good amounts of different vitamins and minerals such as Fe, Ca, K, Zn, P, Cu (3, 4).