AMMI, or Semen Ammeos, a kind of aromatic Seed, of considerable use in Medicine; the Produce of a Plant of the same Name. The Seed is brought from the Levant: It is found to contain a great deal of essential Oil, and volatile Salt; and to be attenuating, aperitive, hysteric, carminative, cephalic, and alexipharmic being, is one of the four lesser hot Seeds.—It expels Wind, provokes the Menses, &c. According to Lemery, the Plant takes its Name Ammeos from amyis, arena; its Seed being very like Grains of Sand. —It is also called Ammi Creticum, or Aethiopicum, to distinguish it from the vulgar Ammi, or Bishop's-weed. It is sometimes also called Cuminum Aethiopicum.
