Diabetes mellitus is a common chronic disease that affects millions of people worldwide. According to researchers from King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia, “Standard treatment is failing to achieve required correction of blood glucose in many patients. Therefore, there is a need for investigating potential hypoglycemic drugs or herbs to improve hypoglycemic control in diabetic patients.”
The researchers tested black seed as an adjuvant therapy in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. A total of 94 patients were divided randomly into three dose groups and medications containing black seed were administered in doses of 1, 2 and 3 grams a day for three months. The researchers found that two grams of black seed a day was the optimal dose, and that it resulted in reduced fasting glucose, increased beta-cell function, decreased insulin resistance, and reduced hemoglobin in humans.