Plant Information

Common Name: AJWAIN
Scientific Name: Trachyspermum ammi
Alternative Names: Ajowan caraway

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Description

• Annual
• Ajwain is native to Asia.
• It has stems branching from the base, and finely divided, pinnate leaves.
• In summer, tiny white flowers, hairy outside, appear in long-stalked, dense umbels followed by tiny aromatic fruits.
• Ajwain needs moist soil in sun.
• Seeds can be sown in autumn or spring.

Culinary Uses

• An important ingredient in the Indian kitchen.
• The seeds are rarely eaten raw - they are dry-roasted or fried in ghee (clarified butter) to allows the spice to develop a more subtle and complex aroma.
• Ajwain is added at the last process of cooking.
• Ajwain is used to flavor savoury dishes, including curries, legumes, bread and pastry snacks.

Parts Used

• Whole plants are cut when flowering for extraction of oil.
• Seeds are collected when ripe.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• Ajwain is a bitter, aromatic warming herb with a thyme-like aroma.
• Internally for colds, coughs, influenza, asthma, diarrhoea, cholera, colic, indigestion, flatulence, oedema, arthritis and rheumatism.
• Externally for vaginal discharge and rheumatism.
• Used mainly in Ayurvedic medicine as a stimulating decongestant for the respiratory and digestive systems.
• Ajwain oil is given to expel hookworms.

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