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【Nature and flavor】Spicy, warm in nature.

[return through meridians] returns to the heart and liver meridians.

【Effects】Promote blood circulation, unblock menstruation, disperse blood stasis and relieve pain.

[Indications] Amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, lochia retention, abdominal masses, chest pain, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, injuries from falls, and sores and swelling.

[Contraindications] Use with caution in pregnant women.

【Medical records】

"Tang Materia Medica": "It can treat lockjaw, blood clots, and postpartum diseases."

"Kaibao Materia Medica": "It is used to treat postpartum blood loss , muteness, abdominal blood retention, colic, and fetal death in the abdomen. It can be boiled and taken with wine. It is also used to treat bleeding caused by poison."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "If the throat is blocked and obstructed, mash the juice and swallow it."

"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can activate blood circulation, moisten dryness, relieve pain, dissipate swelling, and regulate menstruation."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "The blood heat in smallpox is difficult to come out, and the blood stagnation in macules and rashes is not eliminated."

"New Materia Medica": "It can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, stabilize pregnancy and abort stillbirth."

【Predecessors release medicine】

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: Red and blue flower is an essential medicine for blood circulation. It is used to treat postpartum blood loss and lockjaw. The reason is that the bad blood does not go down and rushes up to the heart, so the mind becomes confused and the mouth becomes lockjaw. It enters the heart and liver, causing the bad blood to go down, and then the dizziness and lockjaw stop. Abdominal colic is caused by the bad blood not being completely eliminated, and the fetus is dead in the abdomen. It will not go down without blood circulation; blood stasis will activate blood, so it can stop colic and expel dead fetuses. Red and blue flower is a medicine for blood circulation. It can stop blood loss and stop stagnation. Overuse can cause blood circulation and death.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Safflower is a medicine for breaking blood, promoting blood circulation, harmonizing blood, and regulating blood. It is used to treat all kinds of diseases caused by blood during pregnancy and childbirth, such as blood irritation, blood dizziness, coma and inability to speak; lochia grabbing the heart, umbilical and abdominal cramps; or difficulty in delivering milk; or placenta not falling off, and the fetus dead in the womb. These are all symptoms of childbirth, which cannot be cured without Safflower. If there is blood dizziness after childbirth, the mouth is closed and the fingers are twisted; or evil enters the blood chamber, delirium and madness; or blood is stuffy and swollen inside, and stiff as if dead, these are all symptoms of postpartum, which cannot be cured without Safflower. If there is amenorrhea and alternating cold and heat, or abdominal pain after due date and purple and black dripping, or blood stasis due to falls and injuries, or sores, itching, swelling and restlessness, these are all symptoms of disharmony of qi and blood, which cannot be cured without Safflower.

"Pharmaceutical Chemistry": Safflower is good at clearing the meridians and is a blood-qi medicine. It can purge and replenish, and each has its own wonderful meaning. If you use more than three or four qian, it will be too pungent and warm, causing the blood to disperse. It can be used with Su Mu to remove blood stasis, combined with cinnamon to relieve amenorrhea, and assisted with Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Paeoniae Alba to treat blood and qi stabbing pain all over the body or chest and abdomen. This is to guide and activate blood. If you use less than seven or eight fen, it can soothe the liver qi, help the blood sea, and greatly replenish blood deficiency. This is to regulate and harmonize the blood; if you only use two or three fen, it will enter the heart to match the heart blood, dissolve the evil fire of the heart meridian, and harmonize the blood. This is to nourish and produce blood; the meaning of the amount is not shallow.

【Features】100,000 flowers produce 1 kilogram

【Modern Research】

1. Immunomodulatory effect: Saffron is clinically used to treat a variety of chronic diseases in the human body. Through its effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, it enhances the body's endurance and lymphocyte proliferation response, thereby improving the body's cellular immunity and humoral immunity, and plays a role in adjusting the flow of human qi and balancing the body's yin and yang.

2. Effects on liver and gallbladder: Saffron has a choleretic effect, and crocetin can lower cholesterol and increase fat metabolism. It can be used in combination with traditional Chinese medicines such as hawthorn, cassia, and oriental rhizome to treat fatty liver. Saffron improves microcirculation, promotes the secretion and excretion of bile, thereby reducing abnormally elevated 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.

3. Effect on kidneys: It is currently believed that the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis is closely related to platelets and the inflammatory mediators they release. Saffron has achieved significant therapeutic effects in interfering with animal models of nephritis. Saffron can keep renal capillaries unobstructed, increase renal blood flow, and promote the repair of inflammatory damage.

4. Effect on the circulatory system: Saffron extract has a stimulating effect on breathing. Under conditions of hypoxia at normal pressure, it can enhance the oxygen metabolism function in cells, improve the heart's tolerance to hypoxia, and to a certain extent reduce the damage to myocardial cells caused by strenuous exercise, thus having a certain protective effect on the heart.

5. Anti-tumor effect: Modern research has found that saffron preparations have obvious anti-cancer and anti-tumor capabilities.

6. Blood-tonifying effect: It is best to take saffron to replenish qi. Although there are side effects, as long as it is not excessive, it does not matter much. At the same time, it has a good effect on irregular menstruation, endocrine disorders, etc. It also has anti-aging and beauty effects. It is recommended that all girls follow the effects and eating methods of saffron, which can completely improve the skin color and beautify the skin.

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Precautions for making Chinese herbal medicine:

1. The medicine jar must be cleaned

When decocting Chinese medicine, the medicinal juice is concentrated due to evaporation of water, and a layer of medicinal scale often accumulates at the bottom and around the medicine pot. If the decocted medicine in the medicine pot is often changed, and the accumulated medicinal scale is not wiped off in time, the medicinal scale will dissolve when the new medicine is decocted, interfering with and reducing the efficacy of the medicine, and even delaying the treatment of the disease. Especially if highly toxic medicines or external medicines that cannot be eaten have been decocted before, it may cause poisoning.

In addition, if the Chinese medicine is not cleaned immediately after each decoction, the scale at the bottom of the medicine pot will become thicker and thicker, and it will easily burn when the medicine is re-decocted, thus losing its efficacy.

2. Whether to cover the medicine

Generally speaking, in order to make Chinese medicine boil thoroughly, it is best to cover it. This is especially true for Chinese medicines containing volatile ingredients, such as mint, patchouli, and perilla leaves, and they should be boiled in a short time to prevent the active ingredients from volatilizing. For some expensive medicines, such as ginseng, deer antler, and wolfberry, the active ingredients should be fully released.

Some Chinese herbal medicines are light in weight and large in size, such as Centella asiatica, Prunella vulgaris, White tongcao, Loofah, Corn hair, etc., so they should not be decocted with the lid on, otherwise they will often overflow from the pot. You can decoct with the lid on and stir at any time.

3. Fry thoroughly and squeeze dry

"Decoction thoroughly" means that the active ingredients of the medicine are fully released, which is the basic requirement for decoction. For medicines with tough texture and difficult to release active ingredients at once, only by decoction separately, decocting first, decocting for a long time, etc. can the medicine juice be thickened and the efficacy be fully exerted. Medicines with loose texture and light and fragrant nature do not need to be decocted for too long; but herbs with light texture and large body should be stirred frequently to facilitate decoction.

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