Nigella Sativa Oil for Opiate dependece/withdrawal

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I found a study about Nigella Sativa Oil, also called Black seed oil or Black Cumin seed oil, helping opiate withdrawals and thought it might help someone. Heres the basics with a link at the bottom to the whole study.

Nigella Sativa is in use for the treatment of variety of ailments since ancient times. Research has based its many effects on their efficacy of blocking calcium channels. As calcium channels have been tried for the treatment of opioid dependence, so Nigella Sativa was used in this study. This study was carried out on 50 patients who were divided into two groups. Patients were admitted for 12 days and then weekly followed up for 12 weeks.
Each patient received placebo orally during day-1 and day-2 of admission. Thereafter Nigella Sativa was given to the patients from day-3 of admission to eighth week. Then the dose of each drug was tapered off during 9th and 10th weeks and then no treatment was given during last two weeks.
It was observed that Nigella Sativa showed a rapid improvement in signs and symptoms of acute opioid abstinence. It was also observed that Nigella Sativa prevented the development of significant craving and relapse. It is concluded that Nigella Sativa is effective in long term management of opioid dependence and it is suggested that further long term follow up studies may be designed with greater number of patients.

It seems to have slight opiate receptor activity less than Kratom so it might be useful by itself to ease heavy withdrawals or as a post withdrawal mood enhancer maybe like a stronger version of L-Tyrosine.
Source: http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/1813/1/1742.htm

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