The efficacy of safflower, amazing effect

I believe everyone is very familiar with safflower oil. This kind of medicinal oil is suitable for a variety of symptoms. Because of its complete functions, it has become one of the must-have medicinal oils for every household. It is made of safflower. Do you know what the effects of safflower are? Let us learn together.

Medicinal use:

The flowers of safflower are used as medicine to regulate menstruation, promote blood circulation, and are mainly used to treat women's diseases.

Nature and flavor: spicy, warm.

① "Kaibao Materia Medica": pungent, warm, non-toxic.

② "Tangye Materia Medica": pungent, sweet, warm and bitter.

Meridians: Enters the heart and liver meridians.

① "Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie" says: It enters the heart and liver meridians.

② "Bencao Jingjie": enters the foot Jueyin liver meridian and hand Taiyin lung meridian.

③"Bencao Zaixin": enters the liver and kidney meridians.

Functions and indications: Promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. It is used to treat amenorrhea, abdominal masses, dystocia, stillbirth, postpartum lochia, pain caused by blood stasis, carbuncle, and injuries from falls.

① "Tang Materia Medica": Treats lockjaw, blood clots, and postpartum diseases.

② "Kaibao Materia Medica": It is used to treat postpartum blood circulation, lockjaw, abdominal blood retention, colic, and fetal death. It can be boiled in wine and taken orally. It also treats bleeding caused by poison.

③ "Bencao Mengquan": If the throat is blocked and obstructed, mash the medicine into juice and swallow it.

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Promote blood circulation, moisten dryness, relieve pain, disperse swelling, and regulate menstruation.

⑤ "Bencao Zheng": The blood heat in smallpox is difficult to come out, and the blood stasis in maculopapular rashes cannot be eliminated.

⑥ "Bencao Zaixin": It can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, protect the fetus and abort the stillbirth.

Function of formula

⑴ The recipe of red and blue flower wine (from "Golden Chamber") has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain.

⑵ Taohong Siwu Decoction (Yi Zong Jin Jian), nourishes blood, promotes blood circulation, and removes blood stasis. Used together with peach kernel, angelica, chuanxiong, raw rehmannia, red peony root, etc.

⑶Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction (from "Medical Errors Correction"), promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, promotes qi and relieves pain. It is mainly used to treat blood stasis in the chest, poor blood circulation, chest pain, headache that does not heal for a long time, and pain like a needle prick in a fixed place.

⑷ Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction (Yi Lin Gaicuo), which promotes blood circulation and opens the orifices, is mainly used to treat headache and dizziness caused by blood stasis in the head and face, or vitiligo, as well as dry blood tuberculosis in women and malnutrition in children.

⑸Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang (from "Yi Lin Gaicuo"), promotes blood circulation and qi circulation, removes blood stasis and dredges the meridians, relieves numbness and relieves pain. It is mainly used to treat shoulder pain, arm pain, back pain, leg pain, or body pain caused by qi and blood stagnation in the meridians, which does not heal for a long time.

⑹ Fuyuan Huoxue Decoction (Medical Inventions), which promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, soothes the liver and dredges the meridians. It is mainly used to treat injuries caused by falls, blood stasis in the hypochondrium, and unbearable pain.

Dosage and Administration: For internal use: decoct in water, 1-2 qian; make into powder or soak in wine, or mash into juice if fresh. For external use: grind into powder and sprinkle.