Safflower, I believe everyone is more familiar, daily life is also more common, it is a plant of the Asteraceae family, with its dried flowers into medicine. Safflower is distributed throughout the country, mainly distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and other regions. In the summer, when the flowers are in bloom, the best time to pick is when the flower color changes from yellow to bright red. The collected safflower can be dried over low heat or dried in the shade.
Safflower flavor spicy, temperate. Mainly into the heart meridian, liver meridian. The main effects of safflower are: to activate blood circulation, dispel stasis and relieve pain.
Safflower is well known for the use of women, which is effective for all kinds of gynecological blood stasis, so the frequency of clinical use is high, especially for blood stasis menstrual amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and postpartum stasis abdominal pain and other medical evidence. Safflower is warm, spicy and scattered, warm meridians, sex special blood stasis, is the key medicine for menstrual pain relief, clinically often take safflower and angelica, Sichuan root, peach kernel, danshen and other drugs to use together, in order to enhance the effect of blood activation.
Safflower can also treat chest palsy heartache, blood stasis abdominal pain and rib pain. As also introduced earlier, safflower can activate blood and menstruation, generally without pain, through the effect of safflower to activate blood, it can achieve the effect of dispelling stasis and relieving pain. Clinically, safflower can be used to treat chest paralysis, chest pain, abdominal pain, flank pain and so on caused by congestion of blood veins.
Safflower has a strong effect on blood and pain relief, so it also has a good effect on the stagnation and swelling pain caused by bruises. Can be very good to improve the blood vein, activate blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain, clinical safflower is also one of the commonly used Chinese medicines for the treatment of bruises. For bruises, safflower is often used clinically with wood fragrance, frankincense, myrrh, etc. In addition, the more famous "safflower oil" is the "nemesis" of bruises.
Safflower has a strong effect on blood circulation, so pregnant women should not use it. In addition, some patients with bleeding tendencies and abnormal clotting should be used with caution.
Related Notes:
1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": invigorate blood and moisturize, relieve pain and swelling, and pass through menstruation.
2. "Kaibao": postpartum blood dizziness, abdominal blood in the abdomen is not exhausted, fetal stillbirth, and wine is boiled. Also the Lord's poison.
3. "Benjing Fengyuan": Blood is born in the pericardium, hidden in the liver, belongs to Chong Ren, and safflower juice is the same as it. Therefore, it can perform the blood line of men, pass through the water of women, activate blood, detoxify acne, and disperse redness.
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