The flower that understands women best - Saffron

Saffron is known as the "magic herb that can cure all diseases", and its effect on women is particularly obvious!

1. Effects on liver and gallbladder.

Saffron has a choleretic effect, and crocin can lower cholesterol and increase fat metabolism. It can be used in combination with traditional Chinese medicines such as hawthorn, cassia seed, and Alisma orientalis to treat fatty liver. Saffron can be used to treat cirrhosis after chronic viral hepatitis by improving microcirculation, promoting the secretion and excretion of bile, thereby reducing abnormally elevated globulin and total bilirubin. Crocetin has a chemopreventive effect on early acute liver damage caused by toxic substances and is used to treat chronic cholecystitis.

2. Effects 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.

3. 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 body's qi and balancing the body's yin and yang.

4. Anti-tumor effect.

Modern research has found that saffron preparations have significant anti-cancer capabilities.

5. Effects on kidneys.

It is 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 open, increase renal blood flow, and promote the repair of inflammatory damage.

6. The beauty effects of saffron:

Saffron has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, unblocking meridians, cooling blood and detoxifying, and relieving inflammation and pain. It can improve human immunity, detoxify and beautify, promote sleep, and increase energy. It is especially effective in nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation for women. It is said that Wu Zetian also often drank saffron as tea to achieve the effect of beautifying the skin. In addition, because saffron can lower cholesterol and promote fat metabolism, regular consumption of saffron can also help with weight loss.

7. Therapeutic effects of saffron:

Saffron tastes sweet and slightly spicy, and is neutral in nature; it enters the heart and liver meridians; it is light and moist in texture, and enters the blood to disperse, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving depression and relieving knots, cooling blood and detoxifying; it is mainly used to treat irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum lochia, abdominal mass pain, injuries from falls, depression, palpitations, rashes caused by febrile diseases, and measles.

How to Eat Saffron

1. The general way of eating is to take 5-8 roots each time and soak them in water to drink, drink for three days and stop for one day or eat them every other day. Take 6 to 8 flower filaments a day, soak them in 3 or 4 cups of water and take them together. Use it consistently for prevention and health care. It can play a very good role in beauty and health care. Such a small amount of long-term use has a mild medicinal property and a very good effect, but persistence is the key.

2. For single use: You can directly decoct the juice and drink it, or you can brew saffron with boiling water, repeating the brewing process 4 times.

3. Saffron wine

Saffron medicinal wine: 3-4 grams of saffron, 1 jin (500 ml) of white wine, soak for a week and then drink, 20-30 ml per day.

Contraindications: People with heavy menstruation and pregnant women should not take it