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.

Safflower is warm and pungent, promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. Used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, lochia, abdominal lump, and traumatic injury. The ancients often added a handful of red flowers when there was blood in their bodies.

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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. Modern medicine believes that long-term consumption of safflower will cause serious damage to nervous system, urinary system and digestive system, accompanied by adverse reactions such as skin allergy and anaphylactic shock. People with ulcers and hemorrhagic diseases should use safflower with caution, and the dosage should not be large, preferably 3 ~ 9g.

People's Network-Women's safflower health porridge recommends two kinds of porridge.