What Are the Benefits and Effects of Saffron?
1. Activating Blood Circulation and Removing Blood Stasis: Saffron has a very obvious effect of activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and relieving pain through the meridians. It is an important medicine for treating obstetrics and gynecology blood stasis diseases, various traumatic injuries, and stagnation pain and swelling.
2. Cooling the Blood and Detoxifying: Saffron has a slightly cold medicinal nature and has the effects of activating blood circulation and cooling the blood, clearing heat and detoxifying, and resolving blood stasis and stagnation. It can effectively prevent and improve diseases such as measles and maculopapular rash.
3. Relieving Depression and Calming the Mind: Saffron enters the heart and liver meridians, can descend adverse qi and smooth the qi, resolve stagnation and dissipate blood stasis, and has the effect of relieving depression and calming the mind. It can be used to treat symptoms such as melancholic depression and stagnation.
4. Protecting the Liver and Gallbladder: Saffron has a cholagogue effect, and saffron acid can lower cholesterol and increase fat metabolism. Saffron improves microcirculation and promotes the secretion and excretion of bile, thereby reducing abnormally elevated globulin and total bilirubin. It can be used in the treatment of cirrhosis after chronic viral hepatitis. Saffron acid has a chemopreventive effect on early acute liver damage caused by toxic substances and is hopeful for the treatment of chronic cholecystitis.
It should be noted that although saffron has many benefits and can be used for menstrual disorders, postpartum blood stasis, warm-toxin-induced rash, melancholic depression, and palpitations and mania, it should be used with caution by pregnant women to avoid causing miscarriage.
