Black Cumin Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Black Cumin (Nigella sativa), also called black seed, kalonji, or black caraway, is a small annual of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean and grown as a spice crop from Egypt and Turkey to India. It grows 20 to 40 centimeters with finely divided, thread-like leaves and delicate pale blue or white five-petaled flowers in summer, followed by inflated, horned seed capsules. The seeds are tiny, matte black, and three-angled, with a sharp, slightly bitter taste of oregano and onion; bakers scatter them over Turkish bread and naan, and they are not related to true cumin. We extract the dried seed.