Saffron is pungent, warm, attributed to the heart, liver meridian

Aromatic and dispersing, into the blood has the effect of activating the blood circulation, eliminating blood stasis and relieving pain

There is a very good effect on menstrual cramps, dysmenorrhea, postnatal hemorrhagic dizziness, stagnant abdominal pain, chest paralysis and heartache, blood stagnation, bruises, stagnant swellings, joint pain, paralysis in strokes, rashes purple and dark and other good treatment effects.

Functions and Indications:

Promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is used for menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, failure of menstrual flow, obstruction in the abdomen and lumps, bruises and injuries. Ancient people often in the blood in the body, often add a small handful of saffron: gauze bag boiled available twice a day foot soak for all kinds of varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, blood circulation.

Effects:

Effects on cardiovascular system:

1. Inhibition of cardiac effects: experiments have shown that a small dose of saffron decoction can make the heart mildly excited, making the heartbeat strong and the amplitude increased; a large dose of the heart has an inhibitory effect on the heart, slowing down the heart rate, weakening the contraction force of cardiac muscle, and decreasing the amount of cardiac beat output.

2. Experimental studies on coronary blood flow showed that: saffron aqueous extract and saffron water-soluble mixture - saffron yellow pigment has increased coronary blood flow and myocardial trophic blood flow; and saffron ethanol extract of coronary artery dilation and increase coronary blood flow of the role of the coronary artery is not obvious or no effect.

3.

Experimental studies on experimental myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction showed that saffron and its preparations have different degrees of antagonistic effects on myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction. Saffron can make the acute myocardial ischemia caused by pituitary posterior lobe hormone has obvious protection

protection effect; can make repeated transient blockade of coronary blood flow caused by anesthesia dogs acute myocardial ischemia degree significantly reduced, the scope of narrowing, heart rate slowdown, and protection of acute myocardial infarction area of the edge of the district and narrow the infarction range and reduce

edge area of the electrocardiogram of the magnitude of the elevation of the st-segment, so as to improve the ischemic Myocardial oxygen supply and demand.

4. The research on the effect of saffron on blood vessels found that: if the blood vessels were first perfused with the Luo's

liquid containing trace adrenaline or norepinephrine, the smooth muscle of the isolated blood vessels of the animals contracted to maintain a certain degree of vascular tenseness, resulting in the state of blood vein impassability and blood stasis which may be similar to that of human beings. Saffron can make the hind limbs of guinea pigs with increased tension and the ears of rabbits show vasodilatation

and the effect is obvious with the increase of the dose. Saffron can also increase the blood flow of the femoral artery of the anesthetized dogs, but it can make the normal isolated blood vessels of the toads and rabbits constricted. The vasodilatory effect of saffron is related to the functional state of blood vessels and the dose of the drug

. Its mechanism of action may be mainly vasodilatation by directly or partially antagonizing the action of a-adrenergic receptors and a weak direct vasoconstrictor effect.