Latin Name: Nigella sativa
Family: Ranunculaceae
Spread: Countries surrounding the Mediterranean, India, Pakistan, Arab countries
Used Plant Parts: Seeds
Active Ingredient: Black seed seeds contain special ingredients such as fatty acids, sterols, tocopherols, vitamins of group B, thymoquinone and nigellin. Analysis results of Black seed are given in the attached studies. Black seed essential oil constitutes 0.4-0.45% of black seed extract and contains active ingredients such as nigellon, thymokinone, thymohydroquinone, dithycoquinone, thymol, carvacrol, alpha and beta pinene, d-limonene and d-citronol.