Cai Juan (pseudonym), 54, has been suffering from insomnia and dreaminess since she entered menopause two years ago, with more and more white hair. When Miss Sister heard about it, she recommended her health care product-Jiuzheng Jiusun Black Sesame Pill in a circle of friends. It is said to be a Chinese patent medicine, which has no side effects and is especially suitable for menopausal women.

As soon as Caijuan heard it was quite reliable, she bought it and ate it for a while. Her sleep was really much better, so she began to take it for a long time, which lasted for more than a year.

Recently, however, Caijuan found that her white hair had increased, so she quickly consulted her younger sister.

"At this age, you have to eat a high version, and the effect is better!" So Caijuan bought more expensive high-end sesame balls. Unexpectedly, after taking 1 month, she began to feel weak, her eyes turned yellow and her urine color deepened. She checked her liver function in a hospital near her home, with alanine aminotransferase 1 185U/L (normal value 40) and bilirubin 477umol/L (normal value 20).

After a series of tests, Cai Juan was diagnosed with liver failure. Enhanced CT showed that she had cirrhosis and a small amount of ascites. The doctor also issued a critically ill notice, and if the condition worsens, he can only have a liver transplant.

In communication with the patient's family, the doctor found the cause of Caijuan-the black sesame pill she ate contained Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. The doctor said that Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has certain hepatotoxicity, which is easy to induce drug-induced liver disease. If it is a black sesame pill health product made by a small workshop, herbs may be illegally added, and pollutants and dopants in the production process may induce liver damage.

As a kind of health care product, Black Sesame Pills are quite popular. One is because of the price. Compared with other health products, black sesame pills are cheap and many people can afford them. Secondly, the eating method is simple. Black sesame balls are pills, which are very convenient to carry every time.

In addition, black sesame has always been a health care function in many people's minds, but many people think that eating black sesame is more troublesome or more effective. These factors make black sesame pills very popular among people who eat health care products.

In the propaganda of many merchants, black sesame balls have become sacred products for health preservation, especially the black sesame balls that have been steamed for nine times, which have been endowed with various functions by merchants.

In the propaganda of many merchants, it is written that the black sesame balls with nine steamed and nine dried are from Bao Puzi written by Ge Hongchuan, a Taoist priest in the Jin Dynasty. It is also said that it is recorded that eating three times a day for 100 days can cure chronic diseases. One year the skin is shiny, two years it turns black, three years the teeth fall off and recover, and four years it is harmless. After taking it for five years, you can live forever.

In fact, there is no record of black sesame balls in Bao Puzi. There is only one sentence about black sesame: "A giant is not as good as flax, and the bait is not old, which can resist rheumatism and make up for aging." Sesame refers to black sesame and white sesame.

Black sesame contains vitamin A, calcium, iron, sesamin and other nutrients. Proper consumption of black sesame has the functions of strengthening stomach, protecting liver, beautifying face and lowering blood pressure, and its oil also has the function of moistening intestines and relaxing bowels.

It is also claimed that black sesame has anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and anti-oxidation effects. In fact, black sesame has no obvious effect, because people don't eat much black sesame every day and can't achieve as many effects as claimed. And eating too much black sesame seeds is not good for your health. Black sesame contains a lot of protein, cellulose and oil, which is beneficial to defecation if it enters the human body properly, but too much will exceed the burden of gastrointestinal tract and cause indigestion.

Black sesame balls are generally made of honey, that is, honey is added. Black sesame itself has a high oil content, as high as 45%, and is often used as an oil crop. Black sesame balls often have high sugar content and oil content, and too much oil and sugar is obviously harmful to the health. For example, although black sesame has a certain effect of blackening hair and nourishing hair, too much oil will clog pores and cause hair loss, and the direct impact of high sugar and oil on people is to gain weight.

Few black sesame balls sold in the market are really steamed, and many of them are made by grinding black sesame seeds into powder by machinery and then baking at high temperature, which is simple and efficient.

Some will also add various ingredients, perhaps adding flour to save costs, or adding ingredients such as velvet antler, ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum to make black sesame balls look higher or sell at a higher price.

Are these ingredients really good for your health? The answer is no.

Blind tonic without the right medicine may cause problems, just like the first case of black sesame pills added Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It is hepatotoxic in itself, and the process of making Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It is complicated to be used in traditional Chinese medicine. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Black sesame balls produced in small workshops may not have been strictly processed, resulting in a large number of toxic residues, which will naturally cause health problems if eaten for a long time.

Don't think that black sesame seeds are just steamed and dried for nine times. Taking sesamin, an antioxidant component in black sesame, as an example, some studies show that the content of sesamin in black sesame will decrease with the increase of cooking times, and its antioxidant activity will also decrease accordingly.

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If you really want to eat black sesame seeds for health care, you can fry or steam them yourself and then grind them into powder. You don't have to be superstitious about health care products, which are not necessarily healthy.

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