Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- तिलतिलकहोमधान्यपवित्र
- Hindi
- तिलकाले तिलसफेद तिल
- English
- Sesamesesamesesame seedtil
- Romanized
- tilatil
- Marathi
- तीळ
Ayurvedic properties
Only the qualities the text states are listed. The claims below give each statement with its source.
- Taste (rasa)
- Astringent (kashaya)Bitter (tikta)Sweet (madhura)
- Qualities (guna)
- UshnaLaghu
- Actions
- GrahiDeepanaVrana shodhanaVrana ropana
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Properties3
The verse describes sesame as hot, pervaded by astringent, bitter and sweet tastes, binding and appetising, light in digestion, and, applied to wounds, cleansing and healing.
The commentary gives sesame as hot, astringent and sweet, stopping fluid discharges, kindling the digestive fire, light to digest, and cleansing boils and the like and filling them in.
Sesame paste (tila-kalka) is named among vegetables said to remove kapha.
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25Remedies using it
5Procedures using it
1Conditions mentioned with it
36Conditions named in the preparations that use it, or linked to it directly.
Organs and systems mentioned
21Other ingredients used together
24Count of shared preparations.
Topics of the text that discuss it
17Plant glossary entries
5Where else is this mentioned?
Named 4 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 207Chapter 12… ेव कुरतेःत्रा नराणाम्॥ 71॥ भावार्थ : बलामूल के कषाय से अनेक बार भावित काले तिल से तैल निकाल कर उससे, सैगुना बलामूल के कषाय डालकर बार-बार पकावें। इसक …
- Book page 220Chapter 12… ंजीतान्नं दुष्टदुर्नामरोगी॥ 135॥ भावार्थ : नित्य ही प्रात: काल अच्छे काले तिल अर्ध कुडुब (8 तोले) प्रमाण खावें। उसके ऊपर ठणडा जल पीवे। जब वह पच ज …
- Book page 567Chapter 23×2… ीलांजन (तूतिया या सुरमा) तुबरक, कसीस, मेनफल का बीज, पुनर्नवा, सारिवा, काले तिल, मुलैठी, काणकाली, सफेद कमल, नीलकमल, मोलसिरी, लालकमल और कमल रहने के स् …
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Food
- Categories
- SeedOils and fats
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Chapter 4
- Extraction tasks
- T03
- Record id
- ingredient_tila