Kammun - cumin

Essence.
Cumin is Kerman - black, Fars - yellow, Syrian and Nabatean. Kerman cumin is black in color, while Fars cumin is yellow in color. Farsic is stronger than Syriac, and Nabataean is the one found in other places. All of them are wild and garden, and the wild one is more edible. There is a type of wild cumin whose seeds are similar to nigella seeds.

Choice.
The Kerman type of cumin is stronger than the Fars, and the Fars is stronger than the others.

Nature.
Hot in the second, dry in the third.

Actions and properties.
It has a warming property, it drives away the winds and dissolves. It rips, dries and is said to knit slightly.

Cosmetics.
If you wash your face with cumin juice, it brightens. Cumin also works if you take it and consume it in moderation, but if you take too much of it, your face turns yellow.

Tumors and acne.
Cumin is used with wax ointment or with olive oil and fava bean flour for testicular tumors. It's even better to eat it with olive oil alone or with olive oil and honey.

Wounds and ulcers.

Cumin heals wounds well if you infuse it into the wound, especially the wild variety, the seeds of which are similar to nigella seeds.

Organs of the head.
Rubbing cumin with vinegar and smelling it stops nosebleeds. It also works if you insert a wick from it into your nose.

Organs of the eye.
Sometimes cumin is chewed, mixed with olive oil and this mixture is dripped onto the winged hymen and bruises under the eye, and this helps. If you chew it with salt and drip saliva on the trachoma, on the cornea from which the pannus is removed and on the pterygoid hymen, this prevents the eyelids from sticking together. Squeezed wild cumin juice clears vision, but causes lacrimation; This medicine is called in Greek fabiyun, that is, smoke, for it causes tears, as smoke does. Cumin is also included in cauterizing agents that remove eyelashes so that they no longer grow.

Respiratory system.
Taking cumin in vinegar mixed with water helps with difficulty breathing. Galen adds: “and also with “standing breathing” and with cold heartbeat.”

Eruption organs.
Cumin with olive oil is applied to testicular tumors; sometimes it is used in wax ointment, and sometimes in olive oil and fava bean flour. Cumin, especially wild cumin, crushes stones and helps against leakage of urine in drops, urine with blood, pain in the intestines and bloating. Pounded squeezed wild cumin juice with water sweetened with honey releases the natural feeling.

Rufus says: “Nabatean cumin loosens the stomach,” but Kerman cumin does not release it and even strengthens it; wild cumin herb reduces bile into urine.

Poisons.
Cumin is given to drink in wine against the bite of reptiles, especially the wild type, the seeds of which are similar to the seeds of nigella.