It is cultivated all over the country, mainly in Henan, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Jiangsu.
Summer flowers are picked when they turn from yellow to red, dried in the shade or dried raw.
I. Usage, dosage and taboo of safflower
1. dosage: 2.5-9g.
Decoct with water.
2. Precautions for medication: menorrhagia and pregnant women should not use this product.
Second, the toxic side effects of safflower
Safflower has certain toxicity, and a few patients will have abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms when taking it according to the conventional dose.
Excessive dosage can cause poisoning, manifested as gastrointestinal bleeding, pain, blood pressure drop, convulsion, circulatory and respiratory failure.
A few people will have allergic skin rash, chest tightness, abdominal pain and fever.
Clinical application and prescription of safflower
1, used to treat gynecological diseases.
Safflower is the most commonly used medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, especially in gynecology.
All amenorrhea due to blood stasis, or less menstrual flow, blood clots during menstruation, or delayed menstruation can be selected.
Can be used for dysmenorrhea, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, scar accumulation, traumatic injury, and joint pain.
Safflower enters the heart, divides the liver and blood, and grasps the nature of clearing heat and relieving diarrhea, which can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and dredge collaterals.
For the above-mentioned blood stasis syndrome, it is often combined with drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, such as peach kernel, Angelica sinensis, Radix Aconiti and Radix Paeoniae Rubra.
The compatibility of the two herbs with peach kernel has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging channels, removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration.
However, safflower is superior to peach kernel in warming and relieving pain, and peach kernel is superior to safflower in relieving bitterness and breaking blood stasis.
Peach kernel treats blood stasis, locally or in the lower abdomen; Safflower cures blood stasis and is often scattered all over the body.
The effect of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain is remarkable.
It is effective for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, swelling and pain, traumatic swelling and pain caused by blood stasis.
2. It is used to treat the dark spots caused by heat stagnation and blood stasis.
It can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and can be used with herbs such as Angelica sinensis, Arnebia euchroma and Folium Isatidis for promoting blood circulation, cooling blood, and clearing away heat and toxic materials.
3. Modern clinic is used for various blood stasis syndromes or blood circulation disorders.
For angina pectoris of coronary heart disease, it is often combined with Danshen, Chuanshao and Paeonia Rubra. For thromboangiitis obliterans, the foot color of the affected limb is dark red or blue, and it is often used with Angelica sinensis, Peach kernel, Paeonia Rubra, Olibanum and Myrrha.
4. This product can also be combined with Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Paeoniae Alba. The combination of the three herbs can nourish blood and relieve pain.
The combination of three drugs has a good effect on hypochondriac pain and headache caused by blood syndrome disharmony or blood deficiency and blood stasis.