Saffron is more suitable for beauty lovers. If a female friend eats saffron, it can effectively replenish qi and blood, be full of energy and have a rosy complexion.
2. Preventive health care
For the elderly. Modern pharmacological research shows that a small dose of saffron decoction can inhibit the contraction of toad heart; A small dose of saffron makes blood pressure rise slightly and then drop, while a large dose makes blood pressure drop permanently. It can obviously prevent and treat common symptoms of the elderly such as cerebral thrombosis, vasculitis, myocardial infarction and neurasthenia.
3. Enhance physical fitness and regulate endocrine.
Suitable for all kinds of people. It can promote macrophage function, remove "garbage" in the body, enhance cellular immunity and improve human resistance; It can promote the blood oxygen supply of human blood circulation in time, and make people keep quick thinking, calm mind and full of confidence; It can adjust endocrine in time and eliminate pigmentation caused by disorder.
4, detoxification and beauty
Saffron contains a lot of nutrients, and most people like to make tea with saffron, which can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, detoxify and maintain beauty. Can effectively beautify the skin.
Step 5 lower cholesterol
Saffron can also lower cholesterol, promote fat metabolism, and lose weight by taking saffron regularly. But saffron should not be eaten too much at a time, and the amount of 1 ~ 3 grams can achieve the effect.
6, improve myocardial blood supply and oxygen supply
Compendium of Materia Medica once recorded that crocus sativus can "promote blood circulation, treat depression and treat convulsion". Modern pharmacological research has proved that it is effective in improving myocardial blood supply and oxygen supply, and crocus sativus contains many glycosides. A variety of glycosides can obviously increase the blood flow of coronary artery, so saffron can regulate blood circulation, cool blood and detoxify, nourish skin and remove blood stasis, and resist fatigue and aging.
7. Anti-cancer and anti-tumor.
In recent years, scientists have found that crocetin, crocetin, crocetin and crocetin in the stamens of crocus sativus have strong anticancer activity, and have strong inhibitory effects on blood cancer cells, papillary carcinoma, squamous cell tumor and soft tissue sarcoma. Therefore, anti-cancer active substances such as crocin will become one of the most ideal anti-cancer drugs in 2 1 century.
8. Food seasoning
In the Song of Songs, chapter 4, section 14 mentions some herbs, including saffron. With a strong and unique aroma and bitterness. In Britain, Scandinavia and the Balkans, it is used as a colorant and condiment for Mediterranean and oriental dishes and bread. It is also an important part of French stewed fish.
9, used as a dye
In ancient India, a golden yellow water-soluble fabric dye was obtained by distilling the stigma of saffron. After the death of Sakyamuni, his disciples used saffron as the official color of the vestment. In some cultures, royal clothes are dyed with this dye.
How to eat saffron
Suggestions on how to eat saffron
1, saffron tea
The brewing method of saffron tea: take 5 ~ 10 saffron filaments, soak them in boiling water and drink them, and take them with the filaments after 3 ~ 5 times. Taboos for the use of saffron tea: pregnant women, menstrual period and bleeding patients should use it with caution!
2.saffron wine
Saffron single medicinal liquor: 3 ~ 4g of saffron and 500 ml of white wine1kg, soaked for one week, 20 ~ 30ml per day.
3, saffron porridge
Method 1: Rice100g, saffron 10 ~ 20 slices, and add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge once a day. It is suitable for traumatic pain, chronic hepatitis, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris and apoplexy sequelae caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Method 2: Soak 10 ~ 20 pieces of saffron in boiling water, boil 100g of rice, then add saffron water, and cook porridge to serve.
4, saffron rice
In Iran, whether you eat rice in a restaurant or an ordinary family, there must be a layer of yellow rice on the rice, which is soaked with saffron. This saffron rice also contains cashews, another specialty of Iran. The crunchiness of cashews and the faint scent of saffron make rice delicious.
5, saffron coconut milk clear mouth soup
Stir-fry minced onion and garlic, put them into black mussels, pour in white wine, add saffron until all mussels are open, and take them out; Add coconut milk to the pot, simmer and concentrate, then add cream to boil, add salt and pepper to taste; Put shredded vegetables into a soup bowl with green mouths around it, and decorate the green mouths with shells; Pour the soup in the pot into the grinder, break it to make the soup noodles have small bubbles, pour it into the soup bowl, and decorate with coriander.
6, saffron cheese
After fresh milk is heated for 1 5min, add1tbsp white vinegar, continue to boil, air dry for15min, and solidify into milk residue. Put the milk residue on a plate, mix it with honey and sprinkle with saffron. Take half a bowl of milk tea, add Ciba, mix well, knead into balls by hand, and serve with cheese.
7, saffron chicken rolls
Soak the saffron in warm water for 5 minutes. Mix eggs, flour and starch evenly, spread in a pot and fry until cooked, and make egg skin for later use. Chop the chicken breast, add a little salt and chicken essence, wrap it in egg skin, wrap it in a beautiful shape, and steam it over high fire for 20 minutes. Boil the saffron and add salt, chicken essence and starch to thicken it. Pour the bright red sauce on the chicken rolls.
8, saffron lamb chops
Press the lamb chops and replace them with even pieces; The lamb chops with changed knives are stewed with saffron juice; Put on the simmered lamb chops and pour with saffron sauce.
9, saffron doll plate
Baby dishes, saffron and other ingredients are boiled, the soup is bright and the dishes are nutritious. The saffron doll vegetable juice is thick and the orange soup is made of saffron.
The benefits of saffron
1, immunomodulation
Clinically, saffron is used to treat many chronic diseases of human body. 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.
2, the role of the liver and gallbladder
Crocus sativus is beneficial to gallbladder function, crocetin can reduce cholesterol and increase fat metabolism, and can be used in combination with Chinese medicines such as hawthorn, cassia seed and Alisma orientalis to treat fatty liver. Crocus sativus can improve microcirculation, promote bile secretion and excretion, thereby reducing abnormally increased globulin and total bilirubin, and can be used to treat liver cirrhosis after chronic viral hepatitis. Crocin has a chemopreventive effect on early acute liver injury caused by toxic substances, and is expected to be used in the treatment of chronic cholecystitis.
3, the role of the kidney
At present, it is believed that the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis is closely related to platelets and inflammatory mediators released by them, and the intervention of crocus sativus on nephritis animal model has achieved remarkable results. Crocus sativus can keep renal capillaries unobstructed, increase renal blood flow and promote the repair of inflammatory injury.