Don't soak your feet Safflower is generally taken orally, orally: decocted, 3- 10g, and should be used sparingly for nourishing blood and blood; Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis should be used more. As for external use, the effect may be slightly worse. Carthamus tinctorius 5g and Folium Artemisiae Argyi 30g should be boiled with strong fire first and then with slow fire 10 minute.

The effect of safflower is mainly to promote blood circulation and dredge menstruation, and it is used for blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal mass and other diseases. It is often used with peach kernel, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Paeoniae Alba, and is called Taohong Siwu Decoction. For coronary heart disease, it can be used with Chuanxiong and Danshen. It can be used for traumatic injury, blood stasis, swelling and pain, blood stasis, rib pain, carbuncle, hematemesis and blood stasis. It can be used with peach kernel, frankincense and myrrh.

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Taboos for taking safflower

Pregnant women must not take safflower, which may have adverse effects on pregnant women and fetuses. Safflower has an exciting effect on uterus and intestine, which can easily lead to fetal ischemia and hypoxia, fetal dysplasia and deformity, and even abortion, premature delivery and stillbirth.

Some people in modern times have long regarded safflower as a health care product. As we all know, taking safflower for a long time is likely to produce symptoms of chronic safflower poisoning.

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