Cumin seeds have long been considered stimulant, cooling, digestive, anthelmintic, diuretic, analgesic, galactagogue, emmenagogue, antispasmodic, stomachic, astringent and carminative. They are useful in chronic diarrhea and dyspepsia, for improving appetite and taste and are also useful in cold, counters heart irregularity caused by excess digestive wind, eases clamping period pain, phlegmatic cough and bronchitis. They also build up the immune system of people who suffer severe allergies. They have also been credited with aphrodisiac properties and form an ingredient of most prescriptions for gonorrhoea.