Cumin Essential Oil
Cumin Essential Oil, Cumin is a small, delicate, annual herb about 50cm high with a slender stem, dark green feathery leaves and small pink or white flowers followed by small oblong seed. Essential oil extracted by steam distillation from the ripe seeds. Cumin has now gone out of use in European medicine, having been replaced by Caraway seed, which has a more agreeable flavour, but it is still used to some extent in India, in native medicine. Its principal employment is in veterinary medicine. It is limpid and pale yellow in colour, and is mainly a mixture of cymol or cymene and cuminic aldehyde, or cyminol, which is its chief constituent. The oil is produced mainly in India, Spain, and France.
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| Botanical Name: | Cuminum cyminum L. |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Synonyms: | Cuminum odorum, cummin, Roman caraway, cuminum cyminum fruit oil. |
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| Parts Used: | Ripe seeds |
| Extraction Method: | Steam Distillation. |
| Appearance: | Pale yellow to greenish liquid |
| Aroma Description: | Warm, soft, spicy, musky |
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| Consistancy: | Thin |
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| Historical Uses: | Used in ayervedic medicine as a stimulant and for digestive complaints such as colic and dyspepsia |
| Modern Uses: | Use in Veterinery medicine in digestive preparations. Aromatherapy use in treatment of colic, dyspepsia, indigestion and also for headaches and migraine. Also used as a flavouring and fragrance component, in many food preparations. |
| Cautions: | Non toxic, non irritant, non sensitizing, photo toxic. |
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