Carthamus tinctorius has high medicinal value, can dredge menstruation and promote blood circulation, and has a good curative effect on gynecological diseases. Let me give you a detailed introduction. Let's get to know it together!

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1, and its effects on cardiac function and blood vessels.

Small dose of safflower decoction has a slight exciting effect on toad heart, which makes the heartbeat strengthen and increase, which is beneficial to myocardial ischemia. On the contrary, high dose can inhibit toad and dilate coronary artery and femoral artery at the same time. In addition, it can relieve spasm of vascular smooth muscle, enhance hypoxia tolerance, prevent further development of thrombosis, gradually relieve thrombosis and lower cholesterol. It can improve microcirculation disturbance of myocardium and brain tissue, and has the effect of treating coronary heart disease and cerebral thrombosis.

2. Anticoagulation and thrombosis.

SY can significantly prolong prothrombin time and coagulation time, significantly improve the activity of plasminogen activator and dissolve local thrombus, thus playing a role in treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

3. Reduce blood pressure and blood lipids.

Carthamus tinctorius decoction has a long-lasting antihypertensive effect on dogs and cats. Oral safflower oil can treat hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and hyperlipidemia with high non-esterified fatty acids.

4. Anti-inflammatory effect

Junhong and others think that the long chain 6,8 in safflower? Glycol compounds are the main effective components of anti-inflammatory activity. SY can obviously inhibit the swelling of rats' feet caused by formaldehyde, the increase of capillary permeability of rats' feet caused by histamine and the formation of cotton granuloma in rats. Its anti-inflammatory mechanism may be through reducing capillary permeability, reducing inflammatory exudation, inhibiting inflammatory process and granulation proliferation. A variety of effective components in safflower can affect immunity, antagonize PAF receptor, increase NO level in vivo, scavenge oxygen free radicals and antagonize various inflammatory factors, which has effective anti-inflammatory effect.

5. Analgesic and sedative effects

SY safflower yellow has a strong and lasting analgesic effect on mice, and it is effective for acute pain * * * heat tingling * * * and dull pain * * * chemical tingling * *.

6. Immunosuppression

Lu and other research results show that SY can reduce the content of serum lysozyme, inhibit delayed hypersensitivity and serum hemolysin production, inhibit the phagocytosis of peritoneal macrophages and whole blood leukocytes, and reduce spleen-specific rose-forming cells. Can SY inhibit 3H in vitro? The proliferation reaction of T/B lymphocytes doped with TdR inhibits mixed lymphocyte reaction, reduces the level and activity of interleukin -2, and inhibits the production and activity of T cells, which indicates that SY reduces nonspecific cellular immunity and humoral immunity in a dose-dependent manner.

7, excited the role of the uterus

Carthamus tinctorius decoction has remarkable exciting effect on the uterus of mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs and cats in vitro and in vivo.

8, hypoxia tolerance

SY has obvious anti-hypoxia and anti-fatigue effects, which can obviously prolong the survival time of animals, increase the coronary flow of isolated rabbit heart and myocardium, and improve the pathological state of heart hypoxia and ischemia.

9. Liver protection

Honghua injection can obviously inhibit the increase of GPT in isolated perfusion and liver perfusion fluid, increase the flow velocity and approach normal, which is beneficial to improve liver function.

Benefits of soaking feet with safflower:

Soaking feet is something that many people must do before going to bed after a hard day's work. As we all know, soaking feet has a certain effect on relieving human fatigue and stretching bones and muscles, and putting some items with special effects in the water for soaking feet is a good way to make soaking feet a health care way. The method of soaking feet with safflower is a method that many people like to choose. Because safflower has the function of promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation, it is very meaningful for antifreeze in winter.

So, what are the benefits of soaking feet with safflower? In fact, the effect of soaking feet with safflower has been proved in practice. It is not only an anti-freezing effect, but also has its unique advantages in improving blood circulation and improving sleep quality.

Take a pinch of safflower 10- 15g * * * and soak your feet with boiling water as mentioned above, which can prevent and improve chilblain. Every winter, people often have chapped hands and feet, but once this happens, it takes a long time to recover. Choosing to soak your feet with safflower can also prevent this from happening to some extent.

If you soak your feet with 30-50g of dried wormwood and 10- 15g of safflower at the same time, you can improve blood circulation and prevent and alleviate varicose veins and peripheral neuritis.

If the blood circulation is not good, the hands and feet are prone to numbness at ordinary times, or there is congestion in the lower limbs, you can use these two herbs to soak your feet together. Soaking feet can not only improve blood circulation, but also improve sleep quality to some extent. Soaking feet with safflower and wormwood can also play a certain therapeutic role when catching a cold.

Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine is a good way to keep fit. Soaking feet with wormwood leaves and safflower can promote blood circulation, warm uterus, dispel cold, remove fire and eliminate dampness. However, experts suggest that patients with hypertension should not use this prescription to soak their feet, which may cause blood pressure fluctuations.

Patients with hypertension are suitable for chrysanthemum, medlar, mulberry branch, salvia miltiorrhiza, etc. And borneol to soak your feet. Women with weak physique, such as dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation and purple complexion, can soak their feet with mugwort leaves. Middle-aged and elderly people with qi deficiency can choose Dangshen, Astragalus, Atractylodes macrocephala and other qi-invigorating drugs. Middle-aged and elderly people who need to promote blood circulation and tonify kidney can choose Angelica sinensis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Carthami Flos and Radix Dipsaci. When soaking feet, take 15 ~ 20g of each medicine, fry it in a casserole, then pour the decocted liquid medicine into a bucket, add hot water and soak it for 30 minutes every day.

It should be noted that traditional Chinese medicine should not be soaked in metal pots and plastic pots, otherwise the effective components of the liquid medicine will be lost. When there are new injuries and wounds on the panel, stop using Chinese medicine to soak feet. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine foot bath can only play the role of adjuvant therapy, so don't treat it as a cure, so as not to delay the illness.