Saffron is also known as southern saffron and grass saffron. This medicine is pungent and warm in flavor and enters the liver and heart meridians. It has the effect of activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. Saffron is a blood component medicine, which can treat menstrual closure caused by blood stasis, postpartum abdominal pain caused by blood stasis, joint paralysis and bruises. Saffron can nourish the blood when taken in small doses, invigorate the blood when taken in medium amounts, and break the blood when taken in large amounts.

In addition to this, there is a kind of saffron, also called saffron, native to Europe and Southeast Asia, taste sweet, cold. The effect is stronger than saffron, in addition to activating blood, blood, there is a heat detoxification function, so it can be used for heat into the camp points of the spots and rashes of the evidence of great heat.

Saffron is also called saffron. Is the iris family perennial herbaceous plant saffron dry stigma. Only a small amount of cultivation in China, is in the winter flowering period of sunny mornings to harvest its flowers. Its flowers are greenish-purple or purplish-red, with a special fragrance.

Saffron is sweet and cold in nature, and its effects of activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving menstrual cramps and pain are similar to those of grass saffron, but its effects are stronger than those of grass saffron. In addition to the same effect as grass saffron, saffron also cools the blood and detoxifies the toxin, relieves depression and calms the mind, and is often used to treat depression and depression, palpitations and madness.

Identification:

One, take a little saffron immersed in water or alcohol, visible stigma yellow-orange straight line down, and gradually stained the water yellow, while the fake is not.

Second, take a small amount of saffron on a glass slide, drop a drop of iodine, the real thing does not change color, the fake into other colors.