Isaiah 28:24-27
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“24. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25. When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26. For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27. For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.”
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Medical Science
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Herbs (42)
- Black cummin
- This Biblical herb [Black cummin], popular in bread and cakes, is used medicinally to purge the body of worms and parasites. An Arab proverb calls it “a medicine for every disease except death.” These seeds taste hot to the tongue and are sometimes mixed with peppercorns in Europe. Black cummin oil contains nigellone, which protects guinea pigs from histamine-induced bronchial spasms (Perhaps explaining its use to relieve the symptoms of asthma, bronchitis, and coughs). The presence of the anti-tumor sterol, beta sistosterol, lends some credence to its use in folklore to treat abscesses and tumors of the abdomen, eyes, and liver.
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Sources
- Jordan S. Rubin, The Maker’s Diet, p. 180.
