A SEMINAR

ON

HEALTH BENEFITS OF BLACK SEED AND BLACK SEED OIL

PRESENTED BY

JAMES CHINOMNSO IRENE

DSPZ/SST/18/20305

SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE OF LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY

DELTA STATE POLYTECHNIC, OZORO.

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

AWARD OF NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN SCIENCE LABORATORY
TECHNOLOGY.

MRS. OKINEDO J. I

(SUPERVISOR)

JANUARY, 2021

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 ABSTRACT

The Nigella Sativa L. popularly referred to as black seeds are widely used as a
form of traditional nutrition and medicine. Nigella Sativa seed were used for the
attraction of their oil by way of superficial fluid attraction, and cold press to
determine the physiochemical properties, antioxidant activity, and thermal
behavior.

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INTRODUCTION

Nigella Sativa (N. Sativa) is a small flowering plant that grows in Southwest

Asia, the middle East and Southern Europe.

This shrub also produces fruit with tiny black seeds commonly referred to as

simple black seed, N. Sativa seeds go by many other names including black

cumin, black canaway Nigella, Fennel flower and remain coriander (Ekpan et

al., 2014).

Black seed oil is extracted form N. Sativa seed and has been used in traditional

medicine for over 2,000 years due to its many health benefits studies suggest it

may have numerous applications for health including the treatment of asthma

and aiding weight loss. It is also applied topically to benefit skin and hair.

Black seed have been used medicinally for thousands of years. History believed

that King Tut, cleopadra and Hippocrates ingested black seed for an array of

conditions including weakness, coughing and skin care.

Black seed oil contains thymoquinone which is an antioxidant and anti-

inflammatory compound that may also have tumor-reducing properties (Moses

& Ibrahim 2011) Nigella Sativa).

People can ingest black seed oil in the form of capsules or lately it topically

benefit the skin. It is also possible to add the oil to massage oils, shampoos,

homemade skin-care products and fragrances. High quality black seed oil is

also suitable for use in cooking baking and beverages.

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Black seed is rich in phenolic compounds used as antioxidant agent and in

essential fatty acids reducing sugars, organic acids, toxic glucoside minerals

and vitamins. Among the various oil seeds Nigella Sativa oil is particularly

interesting as it may be utilized in preparations that contain phytochemicals

with strong antioxidant properties and health benefit. Thymoquinone is an

active compound in the crude extracts of Nigella Sativa which possesses

antioxidant and anti-inflammatory efficiency in models of in vitro and in vivo

investigation as well as asthma, diabetes encephalomyelttis, neurodegeneration

and carcinogenesis (M.F. Ramadan Nutritional Value, International Journal of

Food, 2012).

Methods of extraction of seed oils are an effective factor in the properties of oil

solvent extraction, for example, is deficient in selectivity and needs extreme

heat, which could cause the degradation of the desired components. The cold

press extraction to the convenient method for oil extraction it involved no heat

and/or chemicals and this is preferred by consumers concerned about natural

and safe food. However, this method afford yields and the residual meal

contain 10-12% oil content which can eventually limit its uses in industry

processing food super critical fluid extraction (S.F.E) is currently a technique

among others used to extract plant oils and offers some favourable features

over the traditional techniques that have been used in the oil industry in

several, SFE has been the recommended method used to extract antioxidant

compound from Nigella Sativa and exhibits a higher concentration of

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themoquinone (Abdel Fattah A.M. Matsumoto Antinociceptive Effect of Nigella

Sativa Oil, 2011).

HEALTH BENEFIT OF BLACK SEED AND ITS OIL

Black seed have some various health benefits which are:

1. Asthma: a boiled extract of the seeds improve asthmatic symptoms in

one study (15ml/kg of 0.1g% boiled extract daily) of 29 asthmatic

patients it reduces the frequency of asthma symptoms and improved

lung function over 3 months. The patients who took black seed oil

extract also had a reduced need for additional medications and inhalers.

2. Diabetes: Some traditional medicine practitioners use black seed for

reducing diabetic symptoms such as high blood sugar and insulin

resistance in type 2 diabetes. Patients with type 3 diabetes on oral and

anti-diabetes drugs, black seed supplementation helped to reduced heart

complication, in a study of 114 patients, 2g of black seed daily over one

year reduced lipids, blood pressure.

3. High Blood Pressure: Daily use of black seed extracts for 2 months

lowered blood pressure in patients with mildly elevated blood pressure.

4. Make Infertility: In a single, small study of 68 infertile men, daily intake

of 5ml (1tsp) of black seed oil for two months improved semen quality

without any adverse effects.

5. Breast Pain: Mastalgia is breast pain that may or may not be connected

to the menstrual cycle in women. A gel containing 30% black seed oil

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 applied at the site of pain twice daily for two menstrual cycles reduced

breast pain by about 82%.

OTHER HEALTH BENEFIT INCLUDES

1. Stop hair loss.

2. Protect skin.

3. Combat diseases.

4. Promote liver health.

5. It helps to fight cancer.

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CONCLUSION

The study has been able to elucidate on the health benefit of black seed and its

oil.

Nigella Sativa is also known as black cumin, black ca-away. It is used

medicinally for the treatment of some various diseases.

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RECOMMENDATION

Black seed and its oil is widely use all over the world without the knowledge of

its health benefit. It is therefore recommended that some persons with diseases

like diabetes, high blood pressure, breast pain etc. should use the Black seed

oil as treatment for such diseases.

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Abdel Fattah A.M. Matusumot Antinociceptive effects of Nigella Sativa oil and
its major component 2011.

Alhomidean A. Al-Qarawai, Response of broiler chicks to dietary 2010.

Ekapn 2014. Pure black seed oil.

Morji H.M. (2012). Antimicrobial effects of crude extract of Nigella Sativa on

multiple anti-biotics resistant bacteria.

Moses B. Ibrahim 2013. Nigella Sativa (black seed oil).

Worthen D., Goshene O. and Cooker P. (2011) The in virto activity of some
crude oil and purified component of black seed.