Nigella sativa treditional usages (Black seed)

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-16

  Sharrif Moghaddasi, M ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anti oxidant; Black seed; Cancer; Cataract; Heart disease; Nigella sativa; Parkinson's disease; Rheumatoid arthritis; Thymoquinone; Weakened immune system

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA; CARUM CARVI; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM; FOENICULUM VULGARE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS; NIGELLA DAMASCENA; NIGELLA SATIVA;

EID: 80052044766     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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