10 Surprising Health Benefits and Uses of Sabja Seeds (Basil Seeds) for Hair, Skin and Weight Loss

Many of us in modern times are not aware of the uses, nutritional facts, and medicinal values of basil seeds. Whenever you get time, especially in the summer season, visit your grandmother’s place and ask her about the importance of Sabja seeds. She will tell you or make delicious basil seeds recipes. I also come across one of the yummy Sabja seeds recipes when I visited my dearest friend’s house in the scorching heat of June. It was none other than basil seeds Lemonade drink. How can I express the luscious taste of the drink? It was refreshing, succulent, and a tendency of filling the stomach. After quenching my thrust, I got to know the ingredients of this appetizing recipe from my friend’s mother. It was quite simple that can be made within 10-15 minutes by using cold water, lemon juice, sugar, and Sabja seeds. I vow to try the recipe at my place. Since then, it is a regular drink at my home in the summer season.

Wonder benefits of basil seeds

As far as health benefits are concerned, the seeds are full of fiber and known for many surprising health benefits. These seeds are used in making falooda, sherbet, milkshakes, and other popular health drinks. It is known worldwide as one of the ingredients for sweet Asian drinks. However, like Chia seeds, it is comparatively less tasty.

  1. Basil seeds for weight loss: Sabja seeds can be used for weight management purposes. It is full of fiber that makes your stomach full and doesn’t feel hunger for a certain period of time. After soaking into the water, it has the ability to expand 30 times its original sides thus reduces longing for eating more.
  2. Sabja seeds for hair: The seeds contain an adequate amount of vitamin K, protein, and iron. These nutrients are helpful to make your hair healthy and shining. So, it is suggested to include it in your daily diet requirements to skip embarrassment from hair loss and baldness.
  3. Basil seeds for healthy skin: The mix of Sabja seeds and coconut oil is effective to ward off many skin related diseases. Method: Take 100 ml of coconut oil and 1tsp of crushed basil seeds. Now heat the mixture for 5 minutes. Strain and apply it over your skin to cure skin related problems like psoriasis, eczema, etc.
  1. Basil seeds for acidity: Acidity problems are very common these days due to faulty lifestyle and wrong dietary patterns. Sabja seeds are having cooling and soothing effects on the stomach. Method: Take milk (1 cup) and basil seeds (1tsp), stir it well, and drink the same to reduce the burning sensation in your stomach.
  2. Sabja seeds for diabetes treatment: The seeds are good in curing diabetes type 2 by lowering down the sugar in the blood. Method: Take soaked basil seeds (1tsp), toned milk (1 glass), and vanilla for flavor. It helps to give you energy sans sugar.
  3. Relieves constipation: The soaked Sabja seeds when eaten helps to cleanse the inner stomach. It ensures easy bowel movement and helps to flush out toxins from the stomach. It is also taken with milk before going to bed to ease constipation.
  4. Acts as coolant: These seeds are used to lower body heat that’s why as one of the important ingredients in summer for a number of cool drinks such as falooda, rooh afza, nimbu pani and sherbet.
  5. Nutritional values of basil seeds: The seeds contain many phytochemicals and polyphenolic flavonoids like Orientin, vicenin, and other antioxidants. The leaves are rich in essential oils like eugenol, citronellol, limonene, citral, and terpineol. It contains beta carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, vitamin A and vitamin K. It also contains important minerals like potassium, manganese, copper, calcium, folates, and magnesium.
  6. Sabja Seeds recipes: Rooh afza, milkshake, Indian lemonade, paan gulkand milkshake, strawberry falooda, mango falooda, mango sherbet, rose milk recipe, nimbu panni, Shikanji, nannari sharbat, bel sharbat, etc. are some of the important healthy recipes of it
  7. Medicinal values: Medicinally, it can be used to treat digestion problems, cure constipation, removes skin infection, respiratory disorder, sore throats, and stress relief

Common names of basil seed

The scientific name of Sabja seeds is Ocimum basilicum. The different common names of basil seed are Sabja seeds, Falooda, Arabic falooda seeds, Sabja ginjalu, Thai holy basil, Selashi Tukmaria, Sabja Vethai, Hazbo, Tuk malanga, Basilic cultivate, Basilien Kraut, and sweet basil seeds. These seeds are the product of Rudra jada plant that comes under the Tulsi family but shouldn’t be mistaken with holy basil or Tulsi.

Side-effects of Sabja seeds

The children and elderly people should avoid taking it as the seeds may choke due to improper imbalance of water and seeds. The pregnant mother should skip it as the seeds lower down the level of estrogen.

30 thoughts on “10 Surprising Health Benefits and Uses of Sabja Seeds (Basil Seeds) for Hair, Skin and Weight Loss”

  1. I was wondering why they are used so extensively in health drinks. Thank you so much for this article!such miraculous ingredients should be made famous

  2. Sabja ( basil seeds ) are good for any age,over 5 years.Aailable all over spices stores,seed stores,herbs stores in pakistan, and India, widly.

  3. They are tiny black seeds. When soaked in water they grow into cloudy n spongy texture. It really has no taste, it’s the texture and it can be swallowed. So if u put it any flavored milk u can just swallow it. They have a very cooling effect in the stomach so women should not take it during mensuration period as the blood flow decreases.

  4. They are also commonly known as tuqmaraya. My father In law once gave me these and asked me to put it in a lemonade, I did. It was so tasty. Now I got to know that it’s healthy also. Great.

    • If you soak Sabja Seeds in water ,within 5 to 10 minutes they become very spongy and change the colour from black to white.The same can be consumed directly or adding jaggery or honey for taste.

  5. Can we mix sabja (soaked) along with lemon n honey in warm water and take everyday in d morning on empty stomach n can we use it regularly or after certain period should we stop using it.?


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