Can safflower be eaten?

Safflower is a very common health product and also a food with many functions and effects. Generally speaking, as long as one's physique is suitable, one can eat safflower. Safflower is very good for women because it can promote blood circulation and menstruation, nourish blood and activate blood circulation. Long-term consumption can also achieve the effect of beautifying and nourishing the skin. Next, I will introduce you to some relevant knowledge about safflower!

1. The role of safflower

Safflower is pungent and warm in nature, and enters the heart and liver meridians

The aroma is dispersing and enters the blood, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredge menstruation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain

It is mainly used to treat dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum blood loss, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, chest pain and heart pain, blood stasis, bruises and swelling, joint pain, stroke paralysis, and purple macules.

Safflower can promote blood circulation and menstruation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. It can be used as a blood circulation and menstruation promoting medicine. In addition, it can also nourish blood and promote blood circulation. It is used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and traumatic injuries. Add a handful of safflower, wrap it in gauze and boil it, and use it for foot soaking twice a day. It is suitable for varicose veins, poor blood circulation, numbness or cyanosis of the legs and feet, etc. It promotes blood circulation and qi movement, removes blood stasis and dredges the meridians, relieves pain. It is mainly used to treat shoulder pain, arm pain, back pain, leg pain, or body pain caused by qi and blood blocking the meridians, which does not heal for a long time.

2. The efficacy of safflower

Safflower contains volatile oil, kaempferol, safflower ketone, neosafflower glycoside, myristic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, yellow pigment, red pigment, adenosine, polysaccharides, etc. Palmitic acid is an effective anti-inflammatory ingredient; the volatile oil has a good inhibitory effect on mold.

Taking safflower decoction in water has a stimulating effect on the heart, while large doses have an inhibitory effect and have a significant contraction effect on blood vessels; it has a significant effect of increasing coronary blood flow, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and thrombolytic; it has a significant inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation; and it has a stimulating effect on the uterus.

3. How to eat safflower

1. Treatment of high blood pressure: Mix safflower and sophora japonica flowers, put them into a cup three times, brew with boiling water, soak for a while and then drink.

2. Treatment of coronary heart disease: Mix safflower, licorice, whole trichosanthes, and scented tea. Brew with boiling water and drink while hot.

3. Postpartum lochia has not stopped: take safflower, peach kernel, red peony root, angelica root, cinnamon bark, chuanxiong, Corydalis yanhusuo, and peony bark, and decoct them in water.

4. To treat abdominal pain: soak safflower and hawthorn in white wine, soak for 7 days and then drink it. Drink twice a day, depending on your alcohol tolerance, just enough to not get drunk.