【Medicinal Value】

Safflower efficacy mainly promoting blood circulation, for stasis amenorrhea , dysmenorrhea, belly mass, such as cards, often with walnuts , angelica root, rehmannia root , red peony equated with the drug , called Taohongsiwutang . For coronary heart disease , with Chuanxiong equated with. For bruises, swelling and bleeding , bleeding rib pain , carbuncles and vomiting and there is stasis , with walnuts , frankincense , myrrh equated with.

 

【Prescription selection】

1 Governance woman meridian barrier, such as blood diaphragm by : Good safflower ( thin broke ) , Su Fang wood ( hammer broken ) , Angelica decile. Fine cut , each with Tael , water壹升half , fry flowers, wood : One cup and then into the wine , and Angelica fry , food , warm clothes before hollow . ( " Zhu set test medical side ." )

2 cure fever fetal death : Red wine, broth , drink two, three . ( "Woman recipe Addendum" ) 3 rule afterbirth : saffron wine broth , drink two, three . ( " Milk set prescription " )

4 Governance woman sixty-two kinds of wind and stinging belly flesh : One of two red and blue flowers . One big rise in wine , fried half, Dayton clothing One and a half, not only then serving . ( "Golden Chamber" red and blue Huajiu )

5 Governance One cut and swollen : red and blue flowers, cooked chopped juice served the rub . ( "Taiwan Miyao Party" )

6 Governance Houbi unreasonable congestion by : twisted red and blue flower juice One pound small rise , clothes, with the difference of degrees. If the wet winter months without flowers, those thick twisted floodable dry container, such as former of service. ( "Sea set prescription " )

7 Governance Ting ears , Leinian pus without a break , foul smell : Red One minute, alum Tael ( burning ash ) . The pieces of drugs, small study end, each with a little , satisfied ears. ( " Sheng Hui Fang" )

8 Governance bruised bruises and walls : Chuan Ma One minute, two minutes woody , safflower third, licorice quarter . Were born with , powder , rice wine next. ( "Emergency party" )

9 cure bedsores : safflower amount, Paojiu Waicha . ( " Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine" )

Pregnant drug contraindications careful service.

 

【Use value】

Dyeing function

Ancient can be dyed red madder dye Although there but madder red for the earth , but also need a more complex process mordant , and saffron -dyed "true red" , and can be stained directly on the fiber , it occupies a very red dye important position. Red was the color in Sui and Tang dynasties , the Tang Dynasty Li poem " saffron color cover thousands of flowers , any gorilla blood is not added ," vividly colorful overview of the effects of safflower extraordinary . According to modern scientific analysis, safflower contain yellow and red pigments , yellow pigment which is soluble in water and acidic solution , no dye in the ancient values ​​and modern additives commonly used in the safety of food coloring ; while the red pigment is readily soluble in alkaline aqueous solution at neutral or slightly acidic solution may precipitate to form a bright red color lakes deposited on the fiber obtained has given fastness One red clothing.

 

The ancients brewed using safflower red dye process is as follows : After the flowers with dew pick back , the " stack trace " to a pulp , add water immersion . Under neutral conditions, the yellow pigment dissolved with a bag twist to the yellow pigment ( ie yellow juice ) , this One , the stray has been in most of the rest of the red pigment . After that, then have sour sour sour sauce millet or rice water , such as washing , into One step to remove residual yellow pigment can be obtained by stray cake containing red pigment . This method of extraction of safflower pigment , the ancients called " kill flower Law" , this method had been introduced to Japan in Sui and other countries . If you want long-term use safflower , only with artesunate ( inhibitory effect ) Cover One night , shape into pizza -shaped , dried and then processed into " saffron cake" can be stored . When to be used only with water or soda straw ash clarified several times, the red pigment dissolved out, can be dyed . Finally, One Road ebony acidic water , the equivalent of a solid color , red lake formation, the end of the dyeing process . " Saffron cake" after the Song and Yuan Dynasties been popularization .

 

In addition to carthamin immersed in ancient starch , you can also do rouge.