In the Nitric Oxide interview with The Herb Doctors,
Peat talked a lot about Methylene Blue,
another of the quinones.
I believe it was when a caller asked about
other similar, natural substances that suppress nitric oxide
that Peat mentioned something called Black Cumin.
In looking about it seems there are a couple of different plants going by that name:
-Bunium bulbocastanum, similar to caraway in shape
-Nigella sativa, also called kalonji or nigella, and more common in the West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cumin
I think it is the latter plant which Peat was referring to,
nigelia sativa,
because Peat also said in that interview that the Black Cumin he was referring to
contained thymoquinone,
and the nigelia sativa plant's seed does contain thymoquinone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymoquinone
(though that wiki entry also notes another different kind of plant
which contains thymoquinone.)
Here are a few studies about thymoquinone:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12433061
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17236176
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20561950
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23376567
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/26/1_MeetingAbstracts/398.4
Just checking around for what forms it comes in,
if it can be bought, etc,
I came up with these sites,
none of which am I endorsing or not endorsing or whatever...
http://www.phytoextractum.com/buy-thymoquinone-99-nigella-sativa-l-isolate
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/274666?lang=en®ion=US
...and then it is sold as Black Cumin Seed Oil...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009E7SO1M/?tag=rapefo-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048DO0JM/?tag=rapefo-20
...but it is a seed oil so...I might be afraid of the PUFA...
Just wanted to open a discussion about this quinone.
Peat discusses them often
and we've had threads on some of them here:
-Pau D'Arco
-the tetracyclines
-methylene blue
-vitamin K
-Cascara Sagrada, I think
I think there are others I'm forgetting at the moment....
Peat talked a lot about Methylene Blue,
another of the quinones.
I believe it was when a caller asked about
other similar, natural substances that suppress nitric oxide
that Peat mentioned something called Black Cumin.
In looking about it seems there are a couple of different plants going by that name:
-Bunium bulbocastanum, similar to caraway in shape
-Nigella sativa, also called kalonji or nigella, and more common in the West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cumin
I think it is the latter plant which Peat was referring to,
nigelia sativa,
because Peat also said in that interview that the Black Cumin he was referring to
contained thymoquinone,
and the nigelia sativa plant's seed does contain thymoquinone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymoquinone
(though that wiki entry also notes another different kind of plant
which contains thymoquinone.)
Here are a few studies about thymoquinone:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12433061
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17236176
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20561950
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23376567
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/26/1_MeetingAbstracts/398.4
Just checking around for what forms it comes in,
if it can be bought, etc,
I came up with these sites,
none of which am I endorsing or not endorsing or whatever...
http://www.phytoextractum.com/buy-thymoquinone-99-nigella-sativa-l-isolate
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/274666?lang=en®ion=US
...and then it is sold as Black Cumin Seed Oil...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009E7SO1M/?tag=rapefo-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048DO0JM/?tag=rapefo-20
...but it is a seed oil so...I might be afraid of the PUFA...
Just wanted to open a discussion about this quinone.
Peat discusses them often
and we've had threads on some of them here:
-Pau D'Arco
-the tetracyclines
-methylene blue
-vitamin K
-Cascara Sagrada, I think
I think there are others I'm forgetting at the moment....