Thymoquinone (from black seed)

Traditional Uses & Why Herbalists Value It

Thymoquinone's herbal context comes from black seed, whose seeds and pressed oil have longstanding food and household use across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Isolating the compound creates a separate research preparation.

What Modern Research Has Found

Laboratory and animal research reports thymoquinone activity in oxidative-stress, inflammatory and cellular-signaling models. Human evidence is more developed for whole black seed and oil than for the isolated compound. These forms need separate interpretation.

Ingredient Identity & Natural Occurrence

Thymoquinone is one of several naturally occurring constituents of black seed volatile oil. Its amount can vary with seed source, extraction, storage and processing. Unless a finished product is specifically assayed or standardized, the presence of black seed oil does not establish a particular thymoquinone dose.

Thymoquinone in Formulae

Black Seed Oil naturally contains thymoquinone as one component of the oil; the product is not represented here as standardized to a stated thymoquinone amount.

Products Containing This Ingredient

• Black Seed Oil 6.76 fl oz

Sources & Further Reading

• Review on clinical trials of black seed and thymoquinone
• Review of thymoquinone pharmacology and research