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18. Nigella sativa --
{sa.moan-nak} Samon-net.by Daw Mya Bwin and U Sein Gwan, Pharmacology Research Division, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Rangoon, 1973.
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18.
Nigella sativa --
{sa.moan-nak} Samon-net.
Family as given by the authors: Ranunculaceae
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Burmese name:
{sa.moan-nak} Samon-net.
Nigella sativa Linn. Sp. Pl. 753 (1753).
English common name: Black Cummin, Nutmeg Flower, Small Fennel.
Description
Annual herb. Leaves 2-3 pinnatisect, cut into linear or linear-lanceolate
segments. Flowers pale blue on solitary long stalks. Fruit composed of 5-12 more
or less united follicles. Family Ranunculaceae.
Distribution
Upper Burma.
Uses
The seed oil possess hypotensive effect.
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Seeds used as stinulant, carminative, diuretic, emmenagogue, galactagogue;
useful in mild cases of puerperal fever; reduced to powder and mixed with
sesamum oil much used as an external application in eruptions of the skin.
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fn26-01 Mahpoux, M., M. jDakakmy. A. Gemel., & H. Moussa (1964). Choleretic action of Nigella sativa L. seed oil. Egypt Pharma. Bull. 44, 225-229 In: Biol. Abstr. (1966) 47, 6197. fn26-01b
fn26-02 Chopra, R. N>, S. L. Nayar & I. C. Chopra (1956). Glossary of Indian medicinal plants, p. i 76. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research: New Delhi. fn26-02b
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