{"id":343,"date":"2012-10-22T03:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=343"},"modified":"2013-01-17T03:43:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T03:43:22","slug":"ajwain-carum-copticum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Ajwain ~ Carum copticum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Ajwain<a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Ajwain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1202 alignright\" title=\"Ajwain\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Ajwain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Carum copticum<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Apiaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: fruit, leaves, seeds (mainly), oil, essence<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: native to E. Mediterranean; cultivated mainly in India and Iran<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: essential oil (thymol); stearoptene<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: pungent, hot<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: parasympathomimetic, antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">carminative<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">flatulence<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">viral infection (Khalsa)<\/span>, indigestion, colic, dyspepsia and diarrhea (seeds); worms, urticaria<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: hysteria, rheumatic and neuralgic pains<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: oil: 1-3 gtt bid; seeds: 3-5 g bid x 10 days<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at\/~katzer\/engl\/generic_frame.html?Caru_cop.html; http:\/\/www.pioneerherbs.com\/carum_copticum.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajwain Latin name: Carum copticum Family: Apiaceae Part used: fruit, leaves, seeds (mainly), oil, essence Habitat: native to E. Mediterranean; cultivated mainly in India and Iran Main constituents: essential oil (thymol); stearoptene Energetics: pungent, hot Main herbal actions: parasympathomimetic, antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic Minor herbal actions: carminative Main medicinal uses: flatulence, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,67,68,4,36,65,66,32,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthelmintic","category-antibacterial","category-antifungal","category-aryuvedic-herbs","category-energetics-taste","category-hot","category-parasympathomimetic","category-properties","category-pungent","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}