HAHOLÍ (sésamosesamum indicum l.)

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	HAHOLÍ
	*sésamosesamum indicum l.*

Name
HAHOLÍ

Scientific Name
sésamosesamum indicum l.

HAHOLÍ

Other Names:

Sesame, Joy, Haholí, Jijirí

It is a cultivated oily plant from very old. In Mesopotamia, in India, in Egypt, in China and Greece, their seeds very were appreciated like condimento and exquisite and power food. In the tomb of Rameses III (century XIII a.C.) it can see in a fresh air as the Egyptians already added sésamo to the mass of the bread. At the moment it continues being of popular use in Eastern and American countries, where a drink similar to the horchata is even prepared with him, which they take the women to favor the milky secretion when they nurse.

Habitat: widely cultivated in the countries of Oriente.medio and India, of where he is original. At the moment, its culture has extended to other tropical and subtropical regions of Mediterranean America, Africa and countries.

Description: it plants herbaceous of the family of the Pedaliáceas, that reaches up to 1.5 meters of height. Their flowers are of white, pink color or purple. Their fruits are cottony capsules that contain several flattened seeds of 2 to 5 mm in length, which normally they are brown; although there are them also of white, red and black color, according to the varieties.

Used parts: the seeds.

Properties and indications: the seeds of sésamo contain an ample variety of nutritious principles of high biological value:

Lipids or fats (52%), practically all they constituted by insaturados fatty acids, which confers a great effectiveness to them in the reduction of the cholesterol level in blood. Between fats of sésamo is the lecitina, that it is a phospholipid (greasy fosforada) that performs an important function in our organism. He is component essential of the nervous weave, and also one is in the blood, they semen and in the bile; and it takes part in the function of the sexual glands. The lecitina is a powerful emulsionante, that facilitates the dissolution of fats in the middle watery. One of its functions in the blood, consists of maintaining dissolved lipids in general, and specially the cholesterol, thus avoiding its deposit in the arterial walls (arteriosclerosis). Sésamo is, next to the soybean, the richest vegetable in lecitina.

Proteins (20%) of high biological value, formed by 15 amino acids different with a high proportion from metionina (essential amino acid).

Vitamins, specially the E (tocoferol), the B1 or tiamina (0.1 mg percent g), and the B2 or riboflavina (0.24 mg percent g).

Diverse minerals and oligoelementos, specially calcium, phosphorus, iron and magnesium, receive and chromium.

Mucílagos to which it must its smooth laxative action.

At sight of the composition of this small seed, it is not strange that in the Eastern countries is considered it like restaurador of the vitality and the sexual capacity. Between its many applications, we indicated the following ones:

Nervous problems: nervous or mental exhaustion; stress; loss of memory; melancholy; nervous depression; irritability or nervous imbalance; insomnia. It is an excellent nutritious complement for those who are put under great mental or intellectual activity, and wish to maintain a good yield.

Physical overload: sport training, pregnancy, lactancia, convalecencia after operations or of diseases.

Lack of yield or sexual capacity, as much in the man as in the woman.

Diminution of the cholesterol in blood; arteriosclerosis; prevention of the infarct of myocardium and the arterial trombosis.

Use: the seeds of sésamo can be taken crude or slightly toasted. For it, first they are put to water soaking, and after letting them rest during about 15 minutes, they go through a strainer, trying not to spill I put. Of this form the piedrecitas and the Earth are eliminated that could contain. Next they are toasted constantly in a frying pan, removing them with a spoonful of wood to avoid that they are burned. They keep in a glass bottle. 2 or 3 teaspoons are taken from those of coffee after the breakfast and the lunch (eaten of the noon).

Other three traditional forms exist to prepare sésamo with which also their properties take advantage of:

Oil of sésamo: it can be used like any other vegetal oil. He is very stable to the enranciamiento.

Tahín: very flavorful paste that is obtained grinding the seeds. The margarina replaces with advantage mantequilla and.

Gomasio: paste formed by 15 parts of sésamo crushed and one of marine salt. It is in addition an excellent condimento.

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