Sesame yana daya daga cikin tsofaffin amfanin gona a duniya. A halin yanzu, yana samun karɓuwa musamman saboda yawan abun ciki na calcium da magnesium. Tarihinsa a matsayin magani na halitta ya koma shekaru 3600, lokacin da aka yi amfani da sesame a Masar don dalilai na magani (bisa ga bayanan Egyptologist Ebers).
An kuma yi imanin cewa matan Babila ta dā sun yi amfani da cakuda zuma da tsaba don kiyaye ƙuruciyarsu da kyawunsu. Sojojin Romawa sun ci irin wannan cakuda don ba da ƙarfi da kuzari. An buga shi a cikin Yale Journal of Biological Medicine a cikin 2006, wani bincike ya nuna. Sauya duk mai da ake ci da man sesame ya nuna raguwar hawan jini na systolic da diastolic zuwa al'ada. Bugu da ƙari, an sami raguwa a cikin peroxidation na lipid. Ɗaya daga cikin abubuwan da ake samu na man sesame da ke da alhakin tasirin hypotensive shine peptides. Maganin gargajiya na Indiya Ayurveda yana amfani da man iri na Sesame tsawon dubban shekaru don tsaftar baki. An yi imani da cewa kurkura baki da sesame man. Kwayoyin Sesame suna da wadata a cikin zinc, ma'adinai mai mahimmanci don samar da collagen da kuma elasticity na fata. Man sesame yana laushi kunar rana kuma yana taimakawa da cututtukan fata. Ƙarin cikakken jerin abubuwan ban mamaki na sesame: