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Given the growing body of scientific support on its health benefits, sesame would be as much at home inside a medicine cabinet as inside a kitchen cupboard.
Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world, prized as an oilseed for at least 5,000 years. While it’s beginning to regain favor because of its exceptionally high calcium and magnesium content, few realize that it’s also one of the most potent medicinal foods still commonly consumed today. 
In fact, its history as a medicine goes back 3,600 years to Egyptian times, when it was listed in the scrolls of the Ebers as a favored medicine. Also, it’s believed that women in ancient Babylon used a mixture of honey and sesame seeds (halva) to prolong youth and beauty, and Roman soldiers ate the mixture for strength and energy....