Black sesame powder is a tonic for nourishing yin and a dual-purpose medicine and food. It is the black seed of white sesame, an annual woody plant of Sesamaceae. Mainly produced in all parts of China. When the fruit is ripe in autumn, the whole plant is cut, dried and shaken, washed, dried and fried. Black sesame powder is also the raw material for making black sesame paste, peanut butter and obtaining sesame oil. They are the main fillings for making various snacks and jiaozi.

It tastes sweet and flat. Entering the liver and spleen meridians. Nourish liver and kidney, moisten lung and intestine, and benefit kidney. Clinical application of folklore and traditional medicine: 1. Deficiency of kidney yang leads to absence, dizziness, tinnitus and numbness of limbs. It is often used with Lycium barbarum, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Huang Juhua, Cornus officinalis and Mulberry Leaves to achieve the effect of nourishing kidney-yang deficiency. It is used for deficiency of both qi and blood, deficiency of body fluid, intestinal dryness and constipation. It is often equivalent to Chuanxiong, Almond, Cistanche deserticola and Fructus Cannabis, and has the effects of enriching blood, invigorating qi and moistening lung. Combined with Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata, it has the effects of blackening hair, benefiting qi and nourishing blood. ?

Black sesame is often equated with Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata, Mulberry, Eclipta prostrata and Fructus Ligustri Lucidi. Black sesame pill is made of black sesame powder and pure honey. Has effect in blackening hair and improve immunity. Is suitable for people with brain for health care. Has effect of warming and tonify kidney yang, moistening five internal organs, nourishing blood, promote granulation, and filling brain tissue. It is suitable for lifeless people with kidney essence and blood deficiency, dizziness, premature gray hair, alopecia, backache and leg weakness. Black sesame powder has health care function, on the one hand, because it contains protein food and rich minerals, on the other hand, because it contains a lot of unsaturated fat, vitamins, precious sesamin and melanocytes.

Many people taking black sesame powder or black sesame pills will cause or aggravate diarrhea symptoms. Eating black sesame seeds right away is not as good as eating black sesame balls. Because the shell of black sesame powder is not easy to digest, it is not easy to digest and absorb, and the effect is not ideal. But this is also the reason why most people want to grind black sesame into peanut butter or black sesame paste when they eat it.