Safety · Supplement
Black Seed Oil (Nigella sativa): side effects, safety & interactions
Generally well tolerated; can add to glucose- and blood-pressure-lowering medications, and may affect drug metabolism at
- Overall grade
- Grade C
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Safety profile
Generally well tolerated; can add to glucose- and blood-pressure-lowering medications, and may affect drug metabolism at high doses.
Interactions to respect
Blood-pressure medications — Additive blood-pressure lowering.
What Black Seed Oil (Nigella sativa) is
Black seed oil comes from Nigella sativa; its main active is thymoquinone, used traditionally across many conditions.
The honest bottom line
A genuinely bioactive traditional oil with modest, real cardiometabolic benefits — reasonable adjunct, not a cure-all.
Related reading
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- Berberine: side effects, safety & interactionsGI upset is common. Treat it as a drug: additive hypoglycemia with diabetes medication, CYP-mediated interactions, and aEvidence grade B
- Black Seed Oil (Nigella sativa)A traditional 'cure-all' seed oil (thymoquinone) with real, modest signals for blood pressure, glucose and lipids.Evidence grade C
- Black Seed Oil (Nigella sativa) for Glucose / HbA1cEvidence grade C — ModestEvidence grade C
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