The review about seed oils used in the treatment of traditional medicine / Монголын эм зүй, эм судлал

ABSTRACT

Background@#The basics of the development of the Traditional Medicine (TM) in the XXI century are to study medical books created by physicians of the early period; and need to scientific - based understanding the concepts in those scripts.@*Goals@#To investigate the physical properties and the composition of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids (FA) sesame oil which used the symptoms of the wind humor root diseases (the symbolic terminology in TM) comparing with some vegetable oils or seed oils.@*Materials and methods@#We are used “The Instruction Tantra” of “The Quintessence Tantras”, “The Golden Decoration” (གསེར་རྒྱན།) of Darma maaramba Luvsanchoidog which is the explanation scripts of “The Instruction Tantra”. The research was conducted through the method of original manuscript analysis, the comparison method, induction and deduction method.@*Results@#The sesame oil has the saturated FA (14.2%) and unsaturated FA (81.4%) and which approximately amount with the olive oil (13.8%; 83.5%), sunflower oil (9.7%; 87.4%), corn oil (12.9%; 82.3%), soybean oil (15.6%; 80.5%).@*Conclusions@#Sesame oil has saturated (14.2%) and unsaturated fatty acids (81.4%); and has been used for the treatment of wind humor such as light, mobile, non-oily, cool nature – external characteristics of body in Ancient Indian Ayurvedic Medicine. We can be substitute olive oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, soybean oil which have rich of the amount of unsaturated FA (especially high level of mono and poly unsaturated FA) instead of the sesame oil in the treatment.