Chicory Shengzi is not black sesame, Chicory Shengzi Asteraceae is the seeds of lettuce.
Chicory seeds taste slightly sweet, flat, can clear lung heat, digestion, appetite, etc., for the treatment of lung heat cough, cough, lung abscess, insomnia, asthma, indigestion, nausea and so on.
Black sesame is the dried mature seeds of sesame in the sesame family. Sweet in flavor, flat in nature. Attributed to the liver, kidney, large intestine meridian. It has the function of tonifying liver and kidney, benefiting essence and blood, moistening intestinal dryness. It is used for deficiency of essence and blood, dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, premature whitening of hair, hair loss after illness, and intestinal dryness and constipation.
Chicory Shengzi and black sesame seeds are two kinds of drugs, it is recommended that patients should be under the guidance of a physician to use medication, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.