Raspberry, an edible fruit from the Rubus genus, is known to posses many health benefits, it is a powerful antioxidant properties, has anti-proliferative activity against cancer in vitro [1], increases fertility, suppress induced hepatic lesions (in rats), reduces weight via raspberry leaf ketones, helps pregnant women during labor, this last due to certain uterine relaxant effects [5,38,39], and some of its phytochemicals are even used as the source of aromatic compounds used by the industry in many commercial products...etc., but what scientific and medical evidence is behind all these claimed benefits?

In this article we try to document the evidence behind the claimed properties of raspberry tea and raspberry leaf.

RUBUS IDAEUS

Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Rubus
Common name: Red raspberry

Sesame oil (Sesamum indicum) also known as Gingelly oil and til oil, has been traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine in combination with other oils as oil from Lavendula angustifolia (lavender) in an Ayurvedic oil-dripping treatment named Shirodhara massage.

In spite Shirodhara massage is mainly focused on providing stress relieve and help to fight anxiety, sesame oil or Gingelly oil has also been used in Ayurveda and Ayurvedic treatments to provide hair and scalp with the nourishing factors that it needs to grow healthy and strong, not for nothing stress is known to be a factor in recurring cases of alopecia or hair loss.

SESAMUM INDICUM

Family: Pedaliaceae
Genus: Sesamum
Common name: Sesame

Nowadays our hair is victim of several factors that affect its quality and health, as for example stress, pollution caused by the toxins contained in our environment, bad eating habits, not sufficient sleep time, smoking habits...etc. To fight all these factors and keep our hair healthy and shiny we need to know how to stop those factors affecting it and how to increase those ones which affect its healthy development on a positive way.