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Black Seed Oil Puts Deadly Asthma Medications to Shame

Thursday, February 2, 2017 13:19
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February 3rd, 2017

By Sayer Ji

Conributing writer for Wake Up World

According to latest research, the black cumin seed, nigella sativa (known simply as ‘black seed’) is a powerful alternative to dangerous pharmaceutical asthma medications.

A new study published in the journal Phytotherapeutic Research reveals that a powerful little black seed known as nigella sativa — once referred to as ‘the remedy for everything but death’ — may provide a powerful alternative to pharmaceutical medicine in the treatment of asthma. This is extremely promising for the millions of chronic asthma sufferers who are still taking medications like long-acting beta agonist which the FDA warned back in 2006 actually increased the risk of dying from asthma.

The new study, entitled “Nigella sativa Supplementation Improves Asthma Control and Biomarkers: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial”, was a randomized placebo-controlled trial performed on 80 asthmatics, with 40 patients in each of the treatment and placebo groups. The researchers pointed out that “Nigella sativa oil (NSO) is used traditionally for many inflammatory conditions such as asthma.” NSO capsules were administered 500?mg twice daily for 4?weeks. The placebo group received an equal dose of olive oil.

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