Cuminum cyminum

Botanical Name:

Cuminum cyminum L

Family Name:

Umbelliferae (Apiaceae)

Local Name:

Hayyo

Urdu Name:

Zira Safed

English name:

Cumin Seeds

Part used:

Fruit

Flowering:

May - July

Description:

C. cyminum is a slender herb 13 to 15 cm tall and branched. Leaves are divided into long narrow segments like fennel, but much smaller and are of a deep green color. The flowers are small rose color or white, in stalked umbels with only 4 to 6 rays. Seeds are oblong in shaped thicker in middle, compressed, laterally about 5 mm long, resembling caraway seeds but lighter in color and bristly instead of smooth, almost straight, instead of being curved.

Habitat:

In Gilgit /Baltistan this herbs is found growing wild all along streams and water channels, swamp areas dumpy places around springs.

Medicinal uses:

Fruit is carminative, stomachic and stimulant, astringent, useful in diarrhoea, dyspepsia; used veterinary medicine and spice.

Locally, it is used as condiment and spice.

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