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Semen Sesami:

Botanical Name:Sesamum indicum nigrum L.

Common Name:Black Sesame Seed

Preparations

The ripe sesame seeds are gathered in autumn, then they are dried in the sun.

Properties & Taste Sweet and neutral.

Description and Identification
Flattened-ovoid, about 3mm long, and 2mm wide. Externally black,smooth or reticulately wrinkled. A dotted amber raphe at the apex. Testa thin,cotyledons 2,white,oily. Odour weak; aftertaste sweet, hardly oily,aromatic.

Chemical Ingredients
It mosdy has fattiness oil, including oleic acid, linoleic acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid. In addition, it aswell has pedaliin, protein, lecithin, etc.

Property and Channel Tropism
Property: candied in taste; aloof in nature.
Channel tropism: liver,kidney,large intestine.

Action and Indications
To tonify the alarmist and the kidney, to furnish basic aspect and blood, and to relax the bowels. Dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, broken hearing, abortive greying of the hair and beard; accident of hair afterwards a austere disease; constipation.

Meridians

Liver and kidney

Functions

1. To tonify the essence and blood; 2. To moisten the intestines and move feces

Indications & Combinations

1. Deficient essence and blood manifested as dizziness, blurred vision and early graying of the hair. Black sesame seed (Heizhima) is used with Mulberry leaf (Sangye) in the formula Sang Ma Wan. 2. Constipation due to dryness in the intestines. Black sesame seed (Heizhima) is used with Chinese Angelica root (Danggui), Cistanche (Roucongrong) and Arborvitae seed (Baiziren).

Dosage

Origin
It is produced in Shangdong, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hebei, etc.