As early as Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, there was a record of black sesame, which was said to be sweet in taste and flat in nature. It was mainly used to treat internal injuries caused by fatigue, and it could tonify five internal organs, invigorate qi, promote granulation and brain. Long-term use can prolong life. Doctors of later generations believe that black sesame is sweet and fatty, and has the effects of nourishing liver and blood, nourishing kidney yin, strengthening bones and muscles, brightening eyes and ears, filling gastric juice, increasing strength, nourishing brain marrow, growing muscles and promoting detoxification. Suitable for liver and kidney yin deficiency, blood dryness, dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, numbness of limbs, premature gray hair and dry stool. Many elderly people with constipation will drink a small cup of sesame oil in the morning to lubricate the large intestine.
In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen quoted Bao Puzi from Compendium of Materia Medica as saying that black sesame seeds "can cure all kinds of chronic diseases in a hundred days, but they will be shiny and not hungry in one year; White hair returns to black in two years; After three years of rehabilitation. 」
Su Dongpo used to eat black sesame seeds with poria cocos and white honey. After a long time, his physical strength did not decrease, but the deficiency heat gradually subsided. He also wrote a poem "Hu Ma Fu", in which there is a sentence: "steaming, sweet and pleasant, filling marrow and bone, flowing." After the age of 40, people's vision gradually declines, dizziness and blurred vision. If they can take sesame paste for a long time, their eyesight will become clear and their minds will become clear.
A New Study on Black Sesame
Sesame is rich in fat, including oleic acid, linoleic acid and palmitic acid, and also contains lecithin, protein and vitamin E, which can resist the "free radicals" that lead to life aging. Among many foods, the content of vitamin E in black sesame seeds ranks first.
Sesame medicated diet
White sugar sesame Take a proper amount of black sesame, wash it, dry it in the sun, fry it with slow fire, grind it into powder, and add the same amount of white sugar. You can take 2 tablespoons of warm boiled water in the morning and evening, or pour it into milk, soybean milk, or porridge, or wrap it in steamed bread. Has the effects of nourishing blood, moistening dryness, nourishing liver and kidney, and blackening hair.
Black sesame porridge 25 grams of black sesame seeds, mashed, and appropriate amount of rice. Wash rice and black sesame seeds, cook porridge in a pot and eat it every day. This porridge has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney and moistening five internal organs, and is suitable for the elderly and infirm.
Black sesame powder is a snack made of black sesame powder, walnut powder, black bean powder and fried rice flour with sugar, which can be used not only for people with nutritional deficiency, but also as beauty food. The nutrients in this medicated diet are easily absorbed by the human body and can moisturize the skin.
Black sesame paste: 250g of black sesame powder, 250g of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb (ground), and a little sugar. Stir into a paste and take it with boiling water. Every morning and evening, white hair turns gray and gray hair turns black.
Health experience prescription
Xie Haizhou takes 30g of black sesame, 0/0g of medlar/kloc, 0/0g of mulberry leaf, 0/0g of cassia seed/kloc and 0/0g of chrysanthemum flower/kloc, and decocts them in water, which is mainly used for treating vision loss due to deficiency of liver yin, glaucoma and cataract. In addition, mulberry leaves and black sesame seeds are mixed with raw and cooked Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Polygoni Multiflori Radix, black mulberry, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Eclipta prostrata, etc. Treat dizziness and soreness of waist and knees caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney and hyperactivity of liver yang.
Shijinmo used mulberry leaf 6 ~ 10g and black sesame 10g to treat premature gray hair, alopecia, hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Adding Polygonum Multiflori Radix and Radix Rehmanniae is more effective.
The author likes to use Fusang Pill to treat alopecia and white hair: take 300 grams of black sesame and Polygonum multiflorum and grind them into powder; Another 300 grams of mulberry leaves are taken and boiled, and the residue is filtered to leave liquid. Pour the above powder, stir and boil it into slurry. 1 tablespoon, three times a day, has the effect of strengthening the brain and waking up.