Nobody knows where they first started growingcumin, the benefit and harm of which have been studied for millennia. It seems that he was always. He was found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and even in excavations of Stone Age buildings. Therefore, definitely, the oldest spice is cumin.
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Another feature of this spice is to strengthenimmunity - can also be very questionable benefit for some people. It's about patients who have undergone transplantation of any organs. They cumin can promote the rejection of other people's cells.
Basically, this spice is just exclusivelyuseful for the human body. This is due to its composition. Cumin contains more than one hundred useful components. Among them lipase catalyst (natural cells biosynthesis), flavonoids, alkaloids and tocopherols, tannins and enzymes. The most rich in useful substances for the human body are black cumin. The benefits and harms of it (in the cases described above) are several times stronger than other varieties of this spice. It, among other things, contains about 35% of fatty oil, melantine, bitter, essential oil (0.5%).
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As a seasoning, caraway seeds are used in many countriesof the world. Without it, almost no dish in the Baltic countries, Scandinavia and Germany. Bread with cumin in these regions is an indispensable condition for healthy food. Add it to sweet pastries, as well as alcohol, desserts, any fish or meat dishes.
Cumin promotes digestion, fights withincreased gassing, strengthens the immune system. In general, this spice has the best effect on the entire digestive tract of man, so it is so important to take it regularly as a food.
For many people, cumin helps not only to maintainhealth, but also to return it. He takes an honorable place among the drugs of traditional medicine. On its basis make broths that contribute to the increase of breast milk in nursing mothers, stop headaches, stabilize the work of the intestines, fight with pneumonia and bronchitis.