Saffron extract has an exciting effect on breathing. Under the condition of normal pressure and hypoxia, it can enhance the intracellular oxygen metabolism function, improve the hypoxia tolerance of the heart, reduce the damage of strenuous exercise to myocardial cells to a certain extent, and have a certain protective effect on the heart.
Immunomodulatory effect: Crocus sativus is used to treat various chronic diseases in clinic. Through its effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, it can enhance the endurance of the body and enhance the lymphocyte proliferation reaction, thereby improving the cellular immunity and humoral immunity of the body, regulating the qi movement of the human body and balancing the yin and yang of the human body.
It is believed that the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis is closely related to platelets and inflammatory mediators released by them, and crocus sativus has achieved obvious curative effect in intervening nephritis animal model. Crocus sativus can keep renal capillaries unobstructed, increase renal blood flow and promote the repair of inflammatory injury.
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Crocus sativus is mainly distributed in Europe, Mediterranean and Central Asia. Crocus sativus was introduced into China in the Ming Dynasty, listed as medicine in Compendium of Materia Medica, and cultivated in China and Zhejiang.
It is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine with strong physiological activity. Its stigma is used as medicine in Asia and Europe, which has the functions of calming, eliminating phlegm and relieving spasm, and is used to treat gastropathy, menstruation regulation, measles, fever, jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly and so on. Crocus sativus is a native species in southwest Asia, which was first cultivated by Greeks.
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