Saffron has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, cooling blood and detoxifying, relieving depression and calming the mind, protecting the liver and promoting bile secretion.
Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Saffron has obvious effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting menstruation and relieving pain. It is an important medicine for treating gynecological and obstetric blood stasis, various injuries, and stasis and swelling.
Cooling blood and detoxifying
Saffron has a slightly cold nature and has the effects of promoting blood circulation and cooling blood, clearing heat and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and stagnation. It can effectively prevent and improve diseases such as measles and maculopapular rash.
Relieving depression and calming the mind
Saffron enters the heart and liver meridians, can reduce adverse qi, open knots and remove blood stasis, and has the effect of relieving depression and calming the mind. It can be used to treat symptoms such as depression of heart qi and stagnation.
Protecting the liver and promoting bile secretion
Saffron has a bile secretion effect, and crocetin can lower cholesterol and increase fat metabolism. Saffron improves microcirculation, promotes the secretion and excretion of bile, thereby reducing abnormally increased globulin and total bilirubin, and can be used to treat cirrhosis after chronic viral hepatitis. Crocetin has a chemopreventive effect on early acute liver damage caused by toxic substances and is expected to be used in the treatment of chronic cholecystitis.
Regulate immunity
Proteoglycans extracted from saffron can quickly activate protein kinase C and NF-kappa B, promote the activity of macrophages, and thus have immune regulation and anti-invasion functions. Saffron enhances the body’s cellular immunity and humoral immunity by enhancing the proliferation response of lymphocytes.
Anti-tumor
The active ingredients in saffron have strong anti-cancer activity. In particular, it has a strong inhibitory effect on blood cancer cells, papillary cancer, squamous cell tumors and soft tissue sarcomas. Its anti-cancer mechanism is to inhibit the synthesis of DNA and RNA of cancer cells, inhibit the activity of cell protein kinases and the expression of proto-oncogenes.
Improve memory
Saffron has the effect of calming the mind and nourishing the spirit, and can also promote the blood oxygen supply of human blood circulation, so that people can keep their minds sharp and their minds balanced. It is especially suitable for people with neurasthenia, depression, depression, and slow thinking.
Documents on the efficacy of saffron
The Compendium of Materia Medica records the efficacy and effects of saffron: sweet, flat, non-toxic. It is mainly used to treat depression, suffocation, and blood circulation. Long-term use makes people happy. It also treats palpitations.
Iranian ancient medical books record the efficacy and effects of saffron: saffron can treat headaches and toothaches, and has diuretic, nourishing, beauty, aphrodisiac, detoxification, blood pressure reduction, and blood circulation.
Indians use saffron to treat fever, depression, arthritis, weakness, and infertility.
The efficacy and effects of saffron recorded in the Essentials of Food and Drink in the Yuan Dynasty of my country: sweet, flat, non-toxic. It is mainly used to treat depression, suffocation, and long-term use makes people happy.
The efficacy and effects of saffron recorded in the Essentials of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty of my country: it is mainly used to treat depression, suffocation, appetite, and long-term use nourishes the lower abdomen and improves the complexion.
The 2010 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia records the functions and indications of saffron: promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, cooling blood and detoxifying, relieving depression and calming the mind. It is used for amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, fever, depression, palpitations and madness.
Modern research on the efficacy of saffron
As a traditional Chinese medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, saffron has a clear medicinal value in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The active component crocin in saffron has also been developed into a drug in China, which can be used for chest pain and heart blood obstruction.
In recent years, saffron has been widely used to treat coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, thromboangiitis obliterans and other diseases, and has a very good regulating effect on hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia.
Modern pharmacological studies have shown that saffron has the effect of strengthening the body. At present, more than 100 compounds have been isolated from saffron at home and abroad, mainly terpenes, flavonoids, anthraquinones, etc., which show potential medicinal value in the treatment of mental diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, learning and memory disorders, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, gastric ulcers, fatty liver, epilepsy, convulsions, etc.
Effects of drinking saffron soaked in water
Pictures of saffron soaked in water The effects and range of effects of drinking saffron soaked in water are wide. The effects of saffron are mainly to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, promote menstruation and relieve pain, and also have the effects of cooling blood and detoxifying, relieving depression and calming the mind, beautifying and nourishing the skin, etc., and have significant effects on preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and regulating liver and kidney functions. Using saffron soaked in water can well exert its effects, and it is convenient and simple to use.
- Drinking saffron soaked in water has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Some people with blood stasis in the body can take saffron water in moderation.
- Saffron has the function of nourishing blood and activating blood circulation, which can promote blood circulation and regulate endocrine. Drinking saffron water frequently can make the skin rosy, delicate and shiny. Therefore, saffron is sought after by many beauty-loving ladies.
- Drinking saffron in water has the effect of calming the mind and relieving depression. After working and studying for a long time, drinking a glass of saffron water can relax the originally tense and tired spirit.
- Drinking saffron in water can not only activate blood circulation, but also regulate menstruation and relieve pain, replenish qi and blood, and have a certain preventive and relieving effect on abdominal pain, bloating, amenorrhea and oligomenorrhea in women during menstruation.
- Saffron can enhance the metabolism of oxygen in cells. People may experience hypoxia after long-term strenuous exercise. In this case, drinking a little saffron water can reduce the damage caused by strenuous exercise to myocardial cells and effectively protect the heart. More..
Price of saffron
Saffron is a precious tonic, and the price is generally calculated by gram. Take Iran’s premium saffron as an example. In the tourist market, it usually costs hundreds of yuan per gram. Tongrentang pharmacies usually charge 70 to 100 yuan per gram. The price of saffron sold online is slightly lower. Premium saffron usually costs tens of yuan per gram. When buying saffron online, you need to choose an honest online store. Don’t blindly pursue low prices. For the prices of various grades of saffron, you can refer to Ziyuantang. If you buy saffron offline, it is recommended to choose branded pharmacies such as Tongrentang, and don’t buy it in private pharmacies. Regarding the classification of saffron grades, you can refer to the relevant articles of Saffron House.
How to use saffron
Saffron has health benefits. Saffron can be used to make soup, cook, and soak in water:
Saffron tea: Take 5 to 10 saffron filaments, soak them in boiling water and drink them, add water 3 to 5 times and take them together with the filaments.
Saffron wine: 3 to 4 grams of saffron, 1 catty (500 ml) of white wine, soak for a week and drink, 20 to 30 ml per day. Please follow the doctor’s advice on the actual amount of saffron wine. Pregnant women, menstruating women, and patients with hemorrhagic diseases should use it with caution!
Saffron steamed eggs: Soak 10 saffron roots, 3 grams of vegetable oil, 4 grams of salt, 3 eggs, and 100 grams of water in boiling water 5 minutes in advance. Stir well and steam for 10 minutes before eating.
Saffron rice: Soak 15 saffron roots, 200 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of water in boiling water in advance. After washing the rice, add saffron water first, then add appropriate amount of water, and then add it to the rice cooker to cook. After cooking, stir well to get saffron rice as beautiful as the hotel!
Saffron mask: 1 gram of saffron, 10 grams of angelica. 10 grams of peach blossom, rolled into powder and mixed with honey.
Main nutrients of saffron
The main ingredient is crocin (C16H26O7). The coloring substance is crocin (C44H64O26•H2O). The chemical components include crocin-1, 2, 3, 4 (crocin-1～4), picrocrocin, crocetin dimethyl ester, α-crocetin, safranal, volatile oil, etc. Its stigma contains a variety of carotene compounds, with a content of about 2%, among which crocin-1, crocin-2, crocin-3, crocin-4, trans- and cis-crocetin dimethyl ester, α-, β-carotene, α-crocetin, zeaxanthin, lycopene, and picrocrocin were separated. It also contains 0.4% to 1.3% volatile oil, which mainly contains safranal, a decomposition product of crocin, followed by eucalyptol, pinene, etc. In addition, it contains isorhamnetin, kaempferol, vitamin B1 and vitamin B2. Contraindications and side effects of saffron Saffron is a precious medicinal material. Although it has many effects, it also has contraindications. The contraindications of saffron are mainly that it is prohibited for pregnant women, women during menstruation, bleeding patients, too young people, and excessive use of saffron. The side effects of saffron are generally caused by improper dosage or inappropriate use. Saffron has a strong medicinal effect, and the body may not be able to bear excessive use, and some adverse reactions may occur, so saffron should not be used excessively. The dosage of saffron used for daily nourishment and health care is 5-10 saffron roots soaked in water each time. The dosage of saffron as medicine is no more than 3 grams per day, but it must be used under the guidance of a doctor.