Semen Sesami Nigrum (Heizhima) — black sesame
Origin
Black sesame is the dried ripe seed of Sesamum indicum L.The plant is collected in autumn when the fruit is ripe, dried in the sun. The drug is gathered, removed from foreign matter, and dried in the sun.
Description and Identification
Flattened-ovoid, about 3mm long, and 2mm wide. Externally black,smooth or reticulately wrinkled. A dotted brown raphe at the apex. Testa thin,cotyledons 2,white,oily. Odour weak; taste sweet, slightly oily,aromatic.
Chemical Ingredients
It mosdy has fattiness oil, including oleic acid, linoleic acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid. In addition, it also has pedaliin, protein, lecithin, etc.
Property and Channel Tropism
Property: sweet in taste; neutral in nature.
Channel tropism: liver,kidney,large intestine.
Action and Indications
To tonify the liver and the kidney, to replenish vital essence and blood, and to relax the bowels. Dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, impaired hearing, premature greying of the hair and beard; loss of hair after a serious disease; constipation.
Place of Production
It is produced in Shangdong, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hebei, etc.
Recipes of Medicated Diet
1. Fu Ling Zhi Ma Bing
Fu Ling and Black Sesame Cake
[Ingredients]
200g fu ling ( powder ) , Sclerotium Poriae Cocos
500g sticky rice powder
100g black sesame and some honey
[Preparation]
Remove the foreign matter from the black sesame,and fry it in the pan until it dries and the savor comes out Put fu ling powder and sticky rice powder into a clean plastic bag,and shake the bag so as to mix it well, holding the bag’s mouth. Put the mixed powder into the stainless steel dish, and add proper amount of water. Having beaten it up into paste-dense,add black sesame,and mix it well. Bake it into thin pancake in a pan with a little salad oil in gende heat, and take it with some honey.
[ Effects and Indications ]
Tonifying liver and kidney, nourishing essence and blood, moistening intestinal dryness and relaxing bowels.
This recipe can prevent arteriosclerosis and postpone senility.
2. Bu Xue Da Zao Fan
Steamed Rice with Chinese Date
[ Ingredients ]
12 Chinese dates
500g peng lai rice
suitable amount of fried sesame and sealiverwort
[Preparation]
Wash the Chinese dates,remove the pit by slitting the dates,and press out the dates. After washing the rice,put the rice and red dates into the electric cooker,and add water until it reaches the third level. Switch the electric cooker on, and you can smell the dates’fragrance and find the rice’s colour inviting when the switch turn to warm. Apart from having the dates and rice,you can take proper amount of fried black sesame as well. If wrap the rice with sealiverwort slice, you will get better taste and more nutrition.
[ Effects and Indications ]
Replenishing qi and nourishing blood.
It acts on deficiency of blood and qi.
