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Black Seed - A Goldmine of Healing

06/21/2009 12:46

Black Seed Oil

Black seed oil is one of the best selling health and beauty products that we offer at Africa Imports. It has many obvious benefits; but it also has some lesser known benefits that are just now being talked about in the medical field.

The Benefits You Hear About the Most: 

Black seed oil is known to:

- Help heal psoriasis 

-Relieve symptoms of eczema 

-Moisturize and heal dry skin 

-Stimulates hair growth 

-Nourish and strengthen hair 

-Reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles 

-Reduce inflammation or swelling

Some Lesser-Known Benefits: Autoimmune Diseases Although natural medicine may be dismissed by some, it should be noted that black seed oil has been found superior to almost every other natural remedy when used to treat autoimmune disorders; conditions in which patients suffer greatly because their own systems attack their bodies. Black seed oil, especially when combined with garlic, is used as a harmonizer of the imbalance which allows immune cells to destroy healthy cells. The technical language to describe this property is "immunomodulatory action."

Protects Healthy Cells The first major study of black seed in cancer prevention and treatment was performed by scientists at Cancer Immuno-Biology Laboratory of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. They found out that a healthy immune system will detect and destroy cancer cells before the cancer endangers the patient. The immune system does this by supporting increased production of immune cells, bone marrow cells, and B-cells that produce antibodies. Black seed stimulates neutrophil activity. These are the short-lived immune cells that are commonly found in bone marrow but put into action when there is a bacterial infection. Extracts of black cumin have also been shown to modulate production of interleukins, which are proteins that help to improve the immune system. In animal studies, while none of the subjects in the control group survived, two-thirds of the mice that had been given black seed oil were still alive 30 days after deliberate efforts to cause cancer in the subject groups. Black seed oil is particularly useful in aggressive cancers whose growth depends on angiogenesis.

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