Sesame

Seeds excellent rejuvenative tonic for Vayu dosshas , bones and teeth; hemorrhoids, dysentery, constipation (decoction or sweets); decoction with linseed for cough, aphrodisiac; as a paste, with butter for bleeding hemorrhoids; powder for amen-orrhea, dysmenorrhea (and a warm hip bath with ahandful of seeds placed in the water); poultice ap-plied externally to ulcers, burns, and scalds. Applying the oil to the body and head is useful forVayu dosshas , calming, giving nutrition, antioxidant properties, dry skin, ulcers, oozing wounds,with equal parts of lime juice for burns and scalds,on eyelids for eye problems; cooking/frying. In-gesting oil gonorrhea. Leaves mucilage for dysentery, cholera infantum, etc. Decoction from leaves and root hair wash, blackens hair, pro-motes hair growth. Sesame stalks are good foodfor cows. Spiritual Uses: Sattwic (holy) good for yogis (up to one ounce daily) The Ayurveda Encyclopedia 106Preparation: Decoction, sweets, paste, poultice, powder, medicated oil

• Balya: Increases strength
• Br.: . mhan.a Promotes bulk and is building
• Prı-n.ana: Gives satisfaction
• Rasa- yana: Rejuvenative for all tissues
• Vr• .sya: Aphrodisiac
• Su-ks.ma: Enters the smallest channels
• Snehana: Oleating
• Snighdavirecana: Demulcent laxative Keśya Benefits the hair
• Tvakprasa-dana: Skin tonic
• Vran.a: Wound healer
• Medhya: Enhances memory and intelligence
• Biomedical: Laxative, demulcent, emollient, nutritive tonic

Contraindications: High ama and congestion. Skin; eruptions from heat

Safety: No drug–herb interactions are known.

Dosage: 5–30g per day.

Combinations:

• Haritaki, psyllium, hemp seeds for vata dry constipation.
• Licorice, bala, pushkaramoola for a dry and painful cough.
• Guggulu, pippali, ashwagandha for bone strength.
• Shatavari, licorice for vata skin problems.
• Shatavari, ashwagandha for reproductive problems with weakness.

Sesame oil is the most important among all oils.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Drava Vigyaniya Drinkables

Sesame oil is Tvak doshanut – cleanses and detoxifies skin Chakshushya – good for eyes Sukshma – pierces into deep tissues Ushna – hot, balances Kapha useful for both obese and emaciated people.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Drava Vigyaniya Drinkables

22 Sesame seed benefits: उ ण व यो हमः पश के यो ब यि तलो गु ः अ पमू ः कटुः पाके मेधा अि नकफ प तकृत ् २३ Tila (sesamum) is Ushna – hot in potency , Tvachya – good for the skin, Sheetasparsha – cold on touch, Keshya – good for hairs, Balya – strengthening, Guru – hard to digest, Alpamutra – produces little quantity of urine, Katu paka – pungent at the end of digestion Medhakrut – increases intelligence, Agnikrut – increases digestive function, and increases kapha and pitta.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

एक यं पायससुराकृशराः प रवजये त ् Mixing of milk, beer and Krishara (rice – green gram dish) - 38 मधुस पवसातैलपा नया न एक वा समांशा न व वशाि शः य ते पर परम ् ३९ Mixing of equal quantities of any 2, 3 or all of the following is not recommended – honey, ghee, meat fat, sesame oil and beverages.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Anna Raksha Vidhi

उपोदक अ तसाराय तलक केन सा धता Upodika (Indian spinach) processed along with sesame seed paste causes diarrhoea.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Anna Raksha Vidhi

22 Sesame seed benefits: उ ण व यो हमः पश के यो ब यि तलो गु ः अ पमू ः कटुः पाके मेधा अि नकफ प तकृत ् २३ Tila (sesamum) is Ushna – hot in potency , Tvachya – good for the skin, Sheetasparsha – cold on touch, Keshya – good for hairs, Balya – strengthening, Guru – hard to digest, Alpamutra – produces little quantity of urine, Katu paka – pungent at the end of digestion Medhakrut – increases intelligence, Agnikrut – increases digestive function, and increases kapha and pitta.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

32 ½ Kulattha Supa (horse gram soup) वातानल ु ोमी कौल थो गु मतन ू ी तू निजत ् Kulattha Supa (horse gram soup) is Vatanulomi – initiates normal movement of Vata Useful in Gulma (abdominal tumor), tuni and pratituni (pains of the groin region) 33 Eatables prepared from Tila (sesamum) तल प याक वकृ तः शु कशाकं व ढकम ् शा डाकोवटकं नं दोषलं लपनं गु Eatables prepared from Tila (sesamum), Pinyaka (residue of sesamum after the oil is taken out), dried leafy vegetables, germinated grains, shandaki v

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

ा यमांसरसा तेषु, पेया वा नेहभिजता ४० तलचण ू च स ने हफा णतः, कृशरा तथा ीरपेया घ ृता यो णा, द नो वा सगुडः सरः ४१ पेया च प च स ृताः स तैते ने हैः त डुलप चमैः नेहनाः स यः Juice of meat prepared from more quantity of meat, Peya – gruels, fried with more quantity of fats, powder of Tila mixed with fat and half boiled molasses (Phanita), Krisara – rice cooked along with green gram, mixed with the same things as above, Ksheerapeya – gruel prepared from milk, mixed with more quantity of ghee – but

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Snehavidhi oleation therapy

Next, Kapha Dosha is excited in the patient by administering peya (drink) / thin gruel prepared from fish, Masha (black gram) ,Tila (Sesame) etc.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Vamana Virechana Vidhi

Herbal smoking blends – Dhuma dravyani – For Mridu- mild kind of smoke, म ृदौ त या यगु गु गुलु मु त थौणेयशैलेयनलदोशीरवालकम ् वय गकौ तीमधुक ब वम जैलवालुकम ् ीवे टकं सजरसो यामकं मदनं लवम ् श लक कुं कुमं माषा यवाः कु द ु काि तलाः नेहः फलानां साराणां मेदो म जा वसा घ ृतम ् useful drugs are-Aguru, Guggulu, Musta, sthauneya, Shaileya, Nalada, Usheera, Valaka, Varanga, Kounti, Madhuka, Bilvamajja, elavaluka, Shrivestaka, Sarjarasa, Dhyamaka, Madana, Plava, Shallaki, Kumkuma, Masha, Yava, Kunduruk

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Dhumpana Medicated Smoking

25), oil-sesame for unctuousness (v.

— Charaka Samhita, Sutra Sthana — Fundamental Principles, Chapter 2: Dehusked Seeds of Apamarga & Panchakarma (Apamarga Tanduliya Adhyaya / अपामार्गतण्डुलीय अध्याय)

Two primary lipid sources: vegetable (sesame, mustard, coconut) and animal (ghee, oil, muscle fat, bone marrow).

— Charaka Samhita, Sutra Sthana — Fundamental Principles, Chapter 13: Oleation Therapies (Snehadhyaya / स्नेहाध्याय)

Morphology –minute sesame seed shaped and multipedes.

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 7: Signs of Morbidity (Vyadhita Rupiya Vimana / व्याधित रूपीय विमान)

The parasites growing due to the vitiation of shleshma may be caused due to food consisting of milk, jaggery, sesame, flesh of marshy animals, (rice) flour preparations, rice cooked in milk, oil of kusumbha (safflower-Schleichera oleosa), uncooked, putrefied, stale, infected, antagonistic and unsuitable items;

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 7: Signs of Morbidity (Vyadhita Rupiya Vimana / व्याधित रूपीय विमान)

Now ask the patient to collect, sesame seeds endowed with all qualities and harvested in the autumn.

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 7: Signs of Morbidity (Vyadhita Rupiya Vimana / व्याधित रूपीय विमान)

The vegetable products are either taila (oil derived from tila – sesamum seeds) or ataila (other than the above) but both of them are described here as taila because of overall predominance of tila oil.

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 8: Physician's Approach to Disease (Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana / रोगभिषग्जितीय विमान)

Spontaneous appearance of various types of tila (black mole), piplu (port wine mark),vyanga (freckles), and raji (spots like mustard) on the face of the patient.

— Charaka Samhita, Indriya Sthana — Sensorial Prognosis, Chapter 1: Complexion and Voice Prognosis (Varnasvariyam Indriyam / वर्णस्वरीयम् इन्द्रियम्)

Milk (two adhakas), tila taila (two adhakas), ghee (two adhakas) and sugar (one hundred palas) should be cooked together.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 11: Chest Injury and Emaciation Treatment (Kshatakshina Chikitsa / क्षतक्षीणचिकित्सा)

Anuvasana basti (oily enema) should be given with eranda taila (castor oil) or tila taila (sesame oil) processed with sour and anti vata drugs [65].

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 13: Abdominal Diseases Treatment (Udara Chikitsa / उदरचिकित्सा)

dough of rice flour), tila (Sesamum indicum), exercise, prolonged walking, day sleep, traveling, ushna ahara (hot foods), salty and sour foods, vidahi foods (foods that cause burning sensation on consumption), foods that are heavy for digestion and water [99-100].

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 13: Abdominal Diseases Treatment (Udara Chikitsa / उदरचिकित्सा)

When oil is unspecified, sesame oil (Tila taila) is meant.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 1: Paribhashakathana (Definitions)

One whose eyes dissolve (in dreams), whose lamp goes out, who drinks oil or liquor, or who obtains iron or sesame seeds.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 3: Nadiparichha Adividhi (Pulse Diagnosis etc.)

One should bathe early in the morning and donate gold and sesame seeds.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 3: Nadiparichha Adividhi (Pulse Diagnosis etc.)

Pitta in the Agnyashaya (digestive seat) exists in the form of digestive fire, measuring the size of a sesame seed.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

384 g) each of ghee (Ghrita) and sesame oil (Taila).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 8: Avalehakalpana (Confection/Electuary Preparations)

When oil is unspecified, sesame oil (Tila taila) is meant.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 1: Paribhashakathana (Definitions)

Above it is the Tila (pancreas-like organ).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

The Tila (Kloma/pancreas) is the root of the water-carrying vessels and serves as the thirst-covering organ.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

Among plant-derived oils, sesame oil (Tila Taila) is considered the best;

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Uttara Khanda, Chapter 1: Snehapana Vidhi (Oleation Therapy)

Along with curd, Sauvirakta (fermented gruel), sesame, and herbs like Kulattha (horse gram), Masha (black gram), Godhuma (wheat), Atasi (flaxseed), Tila (sesame), and Sarshapa (mustard).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Uttara Khanda, Chapter 2: Sveda Vidhi (Sudation Therapy)

Then burn to ash using sesame stalks as fuel.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 11: Kshara-paka Vidhi Adhyaya - Preparation of Caustics (Alkalis)

Poultices for Vata wounds: warm, unctuous, with sesame oil.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 18: Vrana-alepa-bandha Vidhi Adhyaya - Wound Poultices and Dressings

Harmful: Masha (Vigna mungo / black gram), Kulattha (Macrotyloma uniflorum / horse gram), heavy/sour/salty foods, curd, alcohol, and sesame.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 20: Hitahitiya Adhyaya - Beneficial and Harmful Factors

or with gently roasted sesame seeds mixed with white mustard.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 17: Drishtigata Roga Pratishedha Adhyaya (Chapter on Treatment of Diseases of Vision / Drishti Roga)

Garlands of sesame and rice grains, orpiment (Haritala), and Manashila (realgar) (should also be used).

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 30: Shakunipratishedha

Mayuraka, rajavritta, nimba (neem), koshataki, and sesame (tila) are also used (verses 16-17).

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 36: Bhumipravibhagiya Adhyaya - On Classification of Land for Medicinal Plants

Sesame oil (tila-taila) is hot, sharp, penetrating, sweet in taste, sweet in post-digestive effect, strengthening, pleasant to the mind, subtle, clear, promotes skin health, improves complexion, is binding, scraping, drying, digestive, pacifying, cleansing, promotes intelligence, memory, and strength.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 45: Dravadravya-vidhi Adhyaya - On Liquid Substances

Tila (sesame) — hot, bitter, sweet, skin-beneficial, promotes hair, intelligence.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 46: Annapana-vidhi Adhyaya - On Food and Drink

Three Prastha measures each of clarified butter, curd and milk should be duly cooked with the duly prepared decoction of Karanja, Aragvadha, Tri-katu, Vrihati, Amshumati and Sthira (Kakoli), and with Trivrit, Tila, Amrita (Gulancha), Chakra, Sarpa-gandha, (black) earth of an ant-hill and the barks of Kapittha and Dadima as Kalka.

— Sushruta Samhita, Kalpa Sthana, Chapter 6: Mushika-Kalpa

, (red) sandal wood, Aguru, Kushtha, Tagara, Tila-parnika, Prapaundarika, Nalada, Sarala, Deva-daru, Bhadra-sri (white sandal wood), Yava-phald, Bhargi, Nili, Sugandhika, Kaleyaka, Padmaka, Madhuka, Nagara, Jata (a variety of Jata-mamsi), Punnaga, Ela, Elavdlu, Gairika, Dhydmaka, Bala, Toya, Sarjarasa, Mamsi, Sita-pushpa, Harenuka, Talis'a-patra, small Ela, Priyangu, Kutannata, Sdila pushpa, Saileya, Kushtha, Tagara, Priyangu, Lodhra, Jala (Balaka), Svarna-Gairika and (red) Chandana and Saindhav

— Sushruta Samhita, Kalpa Sthana, Chapter 7: Dundhubhi-Svaniya