Thymoquinone (TQ), the major component of Black Seed Oil, may be a useful adjunct therapy in preventing/treating the damaging effects of the Spike Protein.
Yes to Black Seed in covid, from personal experience. However, i would not credit the TQ so much. When I had COVID (delta) Mar. 8-June 15 2020 I relied upon black seed (eating the seed itself every day) as well as the Bach Flower Essence Holly. My basic symptom for the whole time was an irritated throat. Nigella always kept it in check. Finally, after two and half months I had a sore throat as well (swollen glands) from a secondary bacterial infection. I learned from this the difference between an "irritated throat" (which is vagal or ANS in origin) and a "sore throat" which is glandular. My second and only other symptom was a clenching of the heart or aorta or possibly the artery that serves the thymus, causing a spasm of the chest followed by a tremendous opening of the blood of the chest, like a gasp. This happened about 10-15 times at night during those 3 months. I took the Holly for that (see why below). I also took white pine in the last two weeks; the remedy was making the rounds in the Native American community.
I am very skeptical about limiting the medicinal effects of nigella to the thymoquinone. I think that is a big mistake. There are over twenty five distinctive medicinal substances in black seed and we cannot ignore the others. One thing I learned from my experience is that nigella is a vagal or ANS remedy, which is very, very important and totally overlooked in the medical literature--even in herbalism, of which I am a practitioner and greek/arabic medicine. That means it relaxes the nervous system, which in itself would cure a lot of stuff. I am not sure which ingredients give it this property but herbalists often judge the character of an herb from its taste and nigella is distinctly acrid---that's the flavor that relaxes the nervous system, central or autonomic, from antispastics like crampbark and black cohosh to hallucinogens like peyote, ayahuasca and psilocybin. Like these hallucinogens, COVID 19 delta definitely caused a high level of DMT in the brain, which manifested for me as lucid dreaming. I had a drug-like withdrawal from the DMT as the virus left me in June.
Holly is the Bach flower remedy for irrational hatred directed towards oneself or from oneself. I felt that if the virus was a person it "hated" me because it attacked my back brain and my heart within five days. I had already learned about this use because the Lyme co-infection Bartonella causes the same thing---basically, an inflammation of the back brain. Another friend discovered Holly for the effects of COVID as well. . . . I had been tipped off that hatred was an issue because on Jan. 1, 2020 (actually the same day in China that Covid 19 was "discovered" or "named") I had a dream that "the only thing necessary to make it through the tests ahead was to have an open heart."
For those who are open to the most esoteric end of herbal medicine, direct from American "Indian Medicine," I mention the following. Holly is a "Bat Medicine" (look at the leaves). Three elders have confirmed: "the Bat People attack the Indian People through their genes." As one of them said, "I don't like to talk about that. The Bat People can change your genes, your ancestors and your past lives, all below the level of consciousness." Covid originated in a bat virus (SARS CoVi 1) collected in 2013 and tweeked to have 5 additional spikes (three from native Chinese snakes, two from poisonous sea creatures) ---see Scientific American, Jan. 22, 2020. The bats harbor viruses en mass; viruses providing a great deal of the genes that contribute to the evolution of the infectees---plants, animals, humans. My apologies for going beyond the science, but there are a lot of mysteries in the woods.
totally agree with you regarding limiting Black Seed oil's effect to JUST ONE of the many biochemicals in it. Western science and western medicine are always out to find the "active ingredient". Well just maybe the active ingredient is the whole seed or the whole seed oil!
This quest for the active ingredient when it comes to herbal anti-bacterials is not only a fools game, but it's also counter productive. Bacteria are smart! They share genetic material not only among other bacteria of the same species but even across species. We know they can develop resistance to an antibiotic that is only one chemical very quickly, in a matter of weeks or months. So these active ingredient seekers want to remove one of the biochemicals from the plant and use that against bacteria. The bacteria just laugh at us and become resistant to the one chemical very quickly. But how much more difficult is it for bacteria to become resistant to the dozens or even hundreds of active biochemicals in the whole plant?!
A happy spring to you…twas a long time coming in our part pf the world! Grateful for your hopeful work, Walter. I’m thinking when sourcing black seed oil it’s important to get the cold-pressed to avoid potential seed-oil perils?
Other ingredients of nigella seed: about 30-35% fatty acids, mostly glycerol esters of linoleic, oleic, and palmitic acids; gama linolenic acid; arachidonic acid; tocopherols (vitamin E); essential oils (up to 2.5%), mostly monoterpenes, including p-cymene, thymoquinone, alpha-pinene, and carvacrol; and several alkaloids (Gayles and Brinckmann, 2017).
This is an incredible level of EFAs; they tweak the prostaglandins, which manage the immune reaction, including the arachidonic acid pathway--a main part of the innate immune response (which the mRNA vaxxines totally suppress.) Wow, nigella even has arachidonic acid. The PGs also thins or thicken the blood ---aspirin neutralizes the ones that thicken. All the monoterperpenes would be medicinal and the seed extract probably contains them all, not just TQ---it would be much more expensive to separate out and the oil should contain the EFAs, which is often why nigella is taken, not for the TQs.
Very few supplements I take have a noticeable effect when I start them, but Black Seed oil which I first took as a pill, certainly did. I now use the oil on something i eat, every day. I get it from Mercola, but this is not an endorsement, I am not paid and have not investigated the alternatives.
Black seed oil has popped up as a great supplement in a few of my feeds lately. Definitely worth investigating. Can anyone help me with the correct adult dosage? Oil, seeds, or capsule form? I live in South Africa. We have a few good brands here. Thanks
William Coles, "Adam in Eden" (1657, 125), "laid to the head, it cureth catarrhes, or rheums [watery discharges], dreth the brain, and restoreth the smelling, being lost." This may just be lose of smell due to a head cold, but. . . ? Coronavirus? Covid? I didn't loose the sense of smell or taste when i used nigella for covid.
The traveling companion of a friend of mine, in Morocco, had a sudden, severe head cold. Wasn't sure he could make it home. The guy at the herb store gave him ground nigella seed powder in a sachet, to hold by the nose and rub between the fingers. It worked quite well.
I read a while ago that black seed oil is derived from nigella sativa (and nigella sativa was beneficial for covid). There is the black seed currant oil and the black seed cumin oil (both also come in capsules). Supposedly cumin is better. But the capsules have other ingredients (e.g. sunflower oil). Nigella sativa can be bought in spice stores (culinary)-- they claim it's mislabeled as black seed (oil). So it might be worthwhile to search for Asian spice stores that carry it.
The local store that sells Eastern foods has cold-pressed black seed oil which is sourced from India: it’s incredibly cheap (as are their spices and teas). Tempting…but I don’t know how things are grown there:(
If anyone can’t afford the American prices then that is an affordable option. Ideas?
What we have learned as herbalists: the Indian environment is terribly polluted. Car batteries, dead cows, etc. Gotu kola is notorious in this regard; it grows in ditches so it is cultivated in Hawaii to avoid the Indian crop. The Chinese environment is somewhat less so but they mix lead dust with their more expensive herbs. This probably doesn't count with black seed; it is cheap. Chinese grown herbs will not be available for several months; the wholesalers are not taking the chance on buying it under the tariff regime.Some of the crop comes from Arabic speaking countries and is grown next to food crops. I've had Palestinian black seed oil.
The American, Mexican and Canadian environments are mostly only locally polluted, but we need to be careful about aquatic species--which black seed is not. Even fifty years ago we were taught to avoid plants growing in Western rivers and creeks downstream from old mining tailings.
There are no EPA standards for culintary and medicinal herbs (not even garlic) because they are not counted as something that is consumed in large enough quantities to be concerned about.
Black seed oil has an acrid taste---what the Greeks called the "bilious flavor," like bile in the back of the throat, i.e., the "vomit flavor." Not so nice, but not real strong. People call it "bitter" but the true bitter flavor (like coffee) is different. That's why black seed oil is often given in pearls swallowed whole.
Yes to Black Seed in covid, from personal experience. However, i would not credit the TQ so much. When I had COVID (delta) Mar. 8-June 15 2020 I relied upon black seed (eating the seed itself every day) as well as the Bach Flower Essence Holly. My basic symptom for the whole time was an irritated throat. Nigella always kept it in check. Finally, after two and half months I had a sore throat as well (swollen glands) from a secondary bacterial infection. I learned from this the difference between an "irritated throat" (which is vagal or ANS in origin) and a "sore throat" which is glandular. My second and only other symptom was a clenching of the heart or aorta or possibly the artery that serves the thymus, causing a spasm of the chest followed by a tremendous opening of the blood of the chest, like a gasp. This happened about 10-15 times at night during those 3 months. I took the Holly for that (see why below). I also took white pine in the last two weeks; the remedy was making the rounds in the Native American community.
I am very skeptical about limiting the medicinal effects of nigella to the thymoquinone. I think that is a big mistake. There are over twenty five distinctive medicinal substances in black seed and we cannot ignore the others. One thing I learned from my experience is that nigella is a vagal or ANS remedy, which is very, very important and totally overlooked in the medical literature--even in herbalism, of which I am a practitioner and greek/arabic medicine. That means it relaxes the nervous system, which in itself would cure a lot of stuff. I am not sure which ingredients give it this property but herbalists often judge the character of an herb from its taste and nigella is distinctly acrid---that's the flavor that relaxes the nervous system, central or autonomic, from antispastics like crampbark and black cohosh to hallucinogens like peyote, ayahuasca and psilocybin. Like these hallucinogens, COVID 19 delta definitely caused a high level of DMT in the brain, which manifested for me as lucid dreaming. I had a drug-like withdrawal from the DMT as the virus left me in June.
Holly is the Bach flower remedy for irrational hatred directed towards oneself or from oneself. I felt that if the virus was a person it "hated" me because it attacked my back brain and my heart within five days. I had already learned about this use because the Lyme co-infection Bartonella causes the same thing---basically, an inflammation of the back brain. Another friend discovered Holly for the effects of COVID as well. . . . I had been tipped off that hatred was an issue because on Jan. 1, 2020 (actually the same day in China that Covid 19 was "discovered" or "named") I had a dream that "the only thing necessary to make it through the tests ahead was to have an open heart."
For those who are open to the most esoteric end of herbal medicine, direct from American "Indian Medicine," I mention the following. Holly is a "Bat Medicine" (look at the leaves). Three elders have confirmed: "the Bat People attack the Indian People through their genes." As one of them said, "I don't like to talk about that. The Bat People can change your genes, your ancestors and your past lives, all below the level of consciousness." Covid originated in a bat virus (SARS CoVi 1) collected in 2013 and tweeked to have 5 additional spikes (three from native Chinese snakes, two from poisonous sea creatures) ---see Scientific American, Jan. 22, 2020. The bats harbor viruses en mass; viruses providing a great deal of the genes that contribute to the evolution of the infectees---plants, animals, humans. My apologies for going beyond the science, but there are a lot of mysteries in the woods.
One of my spiritual teaches used to say, Science is so crude.
totally agree with you regarding limiting Black Seed oil's effect to JUST ONE of the many biochemicals in it. Western science and western medicine are always out to find the "active ingredient". Well just maybe the active ingredient is the whole seed or the whole seed oil!
This quest for the active ingredient when it comes to herbal anti-bacterials is not only a fools game, but it's also counter productive. Bacteria are smart! They share genetic material not only among other bacteria of the same species but even across species. We know they can develop resistance to an antibiotic that is only one chemical very quickly, in a matter of weeks or months. So these active ingredient seekers want to remove one of the biochemicals from the plant and use that against bacteria. The bacteria just laugh at us and become resistant to the one chemical very quickly. But how much more difficult is it for bacteria to become resistant to the dozens or even hundreds of active biochemicals in the whole plant?!
Yes. Walter probably couldn't find research on whole nigella because of the pharmaceutical preoccupation with the TQ.
no doubt!
A happy spring to you…twas a long time coming in our part pf the world! Grateful for your hopeful work, Walter. I’m thinking when sourcing black seed oil it’s important to get the cold-pressed to avoid potential seed-oil perils?
Hallelujah
I already use Cold Pressed Black seed oil 2000mg in my arsenal against illness.
Love your Friday Hope
Doe you use cold pressed black seed oil as supplements?
Yes
Other ingredients of nigella seed: about 30-35% fatty acids, mostly glycerol esters of linoleic, oleic, and palmitic acids; gama linolenic acid; arachidonic acid; tocopherols (vitamin E); essential oils (up to 2.5%), mostly monoterpenes, including p-cymene, thymoquinone, alpha-pinene, and carvacrol; and several alkaloids (Gayles and Brinckmann, 2017).
This is an incredible level of EFAs; they tweak the prostaglandins, which manage the immune reaction, including the arachidonic acid pathway--a main part of the innate immune response (which the mRNA vaxxines totally suppress.) Wow, nigella even has arachidonic acid. The PGs also thins or thicken the blood ---aspirin neutralizes the ones that thicken. All the monoterperpenes would be medicinal and the seed extract probably contains them all, not just TQ---it would be much more expensive to separate out and the oil should contain the EFAs, which is often why nigella is taken, not for the TQs.
Very few supplements I take have a noticeable effect when I start them, but Black Seed oil which I first took as a pill, certainly did. I now use the oil on something i eat, every day. I get it from Mercola, but this is not an endorsement, I am not paid and have not investigated the alternatives.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/
As does cannabis which also treats MRSA.
💥💥💥thank u
Thank you highlighting the benefits and going into all the details for those of us who may not be as well informed as you are.
Black seed oil has popped up as a great supplement in a few of my feeds lately. Definitely worth investigating. Can anyone help me with the correct adult dosage? Oil, seeds, or capsule form? I live in South Africa. We have a few good brands here. Thanks
William Coles, "Adam in Eden" (1657, 125), "laid to the head, it cureth catarrhes, or rheums [watery discharges], dreth the brain, and restoreth the smelling, being lost." This may just be lose of smell due to a head cold, but. . . ? Coronavirus? Covid? I didn't loose the sense of smell or taste when i used nigella for covid.
The traveling companion of a friend of mine, in Morocco, had a sudden, severe head cold. Wasn't sure he could make it home. The guy at the herb store gave him ground nigella seed powder in a sachet, to hold by the nose and rub between the fingers. It worked quite well.
I read a while ago that black seed oil is derived from nigella sativa (and nigella sativa was beneficial for covid). There is the black seed currant oil and the black seed cumin oil (both also come in capsules). Supposedly cumin is better. But the capsules have other ingredients (e.g. sunflower oil). Nigella sativa can be bought in spice stores (culinary)-- they claim it's mislabeled as black seed (oil). So it might be worthwhile to search for Asian spice stores that carry it.
The local store that sells Eastern foods has cold-pressed black seed oil which is sourced from India: it’s incredibly cheap (as are their spices and teas). Tempting…but I don’t know how things are grown there:(
If anyone can’t afford the American prices then that is an affordable option. Ideas?
What we have learned as herbalists: the Indian environment is terribly polluted. Car batteries, dead cows, etc. Gotu kola is notorious in this regard; it grows in ditches so it is cultivated in Hawaii to avoid the Indian crop. The Chinese environment is somewhat less so but they mix lead dust with their more expensive herbs. This probably doesn't count with black seed; it is cheap. Chinese grown herbs will not be available for several months; the wholesalers are not taking the chance on buying it under the tariff regime.Some of the crop comes from Arabic speaking countries and is grown next to food crops. I've had Palestinian black seed oil.
The American, Mexican and Canadian environments are mostly only locally polluted, but we need to be careful about aquatic species--which black seed is not. Even fifty years ago we were taught to avoid plants growing in Western rivers and creeks downstream from old mining tailings.
There are no EPA standards for culintary and medicinal herbs (not even garlic) because they are not counted as something that is consumed in large enough quantities to be concerned about.
Apologies for the verkill geek answer.
I just ate the seed when I had COVID and the effect was noticeable.
You ate the black Nigella sativa Seeds?
Yes. From an herb store, not gardening supply seed.
Thank you so much. I’ll be searching for the best cold pressed black seed oil now. 😊
Just ordered a bottle based on your recommendation. Thanks.
It’s organic. I’m curious to see how it tastes but I saw that it can be combined with honey if desired. 👍🏼 Thanks.
Black seed oil has an acrid taste---what the Greeks called the "bilious flavor," like bile in the back of the throat, i.e., the "vomit flavor." Not so nice, but not real strong. People call it "bitter" but the true bitter flavor (like coffee) is different. That's why black seed oil is often given in pearls swallowed whole.