Efficacy: effect on liver and gallbladder.

Saffron has a choleretic effect, and saffron acid can lower cholesterol and increase fat metabolism, which can be used in conjunction with traditional Chinese medicines, such as hawthorn, cassia and zedoary, for the treatment of fatty liver. By improving microcirculation, saffron promotes bile secretion and excretion, thus reducing abnormally high globulin and total bilirubin, and can be used in the treatment of cirrhosis after chronic viral hepatitis.

Contraindications: saffron can cause uterine rhythmic contractions, increase the tension and excitability of the uterus, spasmodic contractions can occur in large doses, the pregnant uterus is more sensitive, easy to cause miscarriage, so pregnant women can not take.

Extended information:

Saffron, or saffron, is a perennial flower of the genus Saffron in the family Iridaceae, and a common spice. It is mainly distributed in Europe, the Mediterranean and Central Asia, etc. Saffron was imported into China during the Ming Dynasty, and the Compendium of Materia Medica included it in the medicines and so on, and it is cultivated in Zhejiang Province, China.

It is a valuable traditional Chinese medicine, with powerful physiological activity, its stigma in Asia and Europe as medicine, sedative, expectorant, antispasmodic effect, used for gastric disorders, menstruation, measles, fever, yellow bile, liver and spleen enlargement and other treatments. Saffron is a native species of Southwest Asia, first cultivated artificially by the Greeks.

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