Healing by black seed according to Hassan Shamssi :

The black seed (al habba as-sawda) whose scientific name is (Nigella Sativa), has since antiquity been used as a medicinal plant. Naturally, treatises on Muslim medicine dating back to the dawn of Islam and the 'Abasid and Umayyad periods have mentioned and described it. Nowadays, it continues to arouse many curiosities, first in the working class where it is praised for a thousand and one merits, then in the world of scientific research and specialized laboratories.

In Great Britain, Dr. Hotton published in 1995, a study in the journal Planta Medica, in which he mentioned the characteristics contained in the volatile oil of the seed of nigella, which is an anti-inflammatory used against pain articular and rheumatic.

In a lecture at a conference on medicinal plants in Jeddah, Dr. Kamal At-Taher of King Sa'ud University in Riyadh; clarified that black seed activates the immune system. So, as demonstrated by experiments on volatile oil and its influence in lowering blood pressure, pulse count, blood sugar, as well as its ability to discourage certain microbes and fungi...

What about reality? This is what the author of this work has tried to present to the reader hoping for a double objective: information and warning. Nothing can be consumed without medical advice.

This book consists of 9 chapters which are as follows:

• What is Nigella?

• The use of black seed in specialized publications (Health and nutrition).
• Recent scientific research on black seed (Nigella).
• The role of black seed in the immunity of the body in research.
• The black seed and cancer.
• The Black Seed and the Microbes.
• THE black seed and diabetes.
• Is there a cure for all ills in Black Seed?
• The black seed in ancient Muslim medicine.