by Sudhirahluwalia, Inc | Apr 20, 2016 | Biblical herbs
Feature photo – Vinayaraj Bdellium gum Commiphora wightii and C. africana are believed to be the ingredients of a composite gum called bdellium (a.k.a Bdellium Gum). Theophrastus was the first to mention bdellium, which he learned about during the campaigns of...
by Sudhirahluwalia, Inc | Mar 16, 2016 | Food and Nutrition
All herbal medicine systems (e.g., Unani, Tib, Ayurveda, Siddha) regard seeds and oil as useful in treating various ailments. In Unani, black cumin seed is mentioned as an important remedy. Hippocrates recommends black cumin, or melanthion in Greek, to treat digestive...
by Sudhirahluwalia, Inc | Jan 29, 2016 | Food and Nutrition
Cuminum cyminum, or cumin, is an annual herb of the parsley family. It rarely grows higher than one meter and bears flowers in umbels. It is native to India, the Mediterranean, Europe, Iran, and regions of Asia and Africa. It is an introduced species in Mexico, Latin...
by Sudhirahluwalia, Inc | Nov 30, 2015 | Biblical herbs
Myrrh is a constituent herb of the Holy Anointing Oil. It was valued not just as a perfume but also for its medicinal use. Romans, Egyptians, Greek, and the Chinese used Commiphora myrrha as medicine. Written references to myrrh as a perfume and herbal medicine date...
by Sudhirahluwalia, Inc | Nov 23, 2015 | Food and Nutrition
The spice trade spanned all five major civilizations from the 4th to the 1st millennium BC the Indus Valley Civilization in India, the Sumerians in modern Iraq, the Egyptians, the Greeks on the isle of Crete, and the Chinese in the land north of the Himalayas. The use...
