Safflower

Safflower
Name
Safflower
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Carthami Flos
Chinese Name
红花
Category
Flowers

SafflowerMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
Macroscopic Features
The tube-shape flowers without ovary; externally reddish-yellow or red; thin and long corolla tube, with 5 narrow strip-shaped petal lobes; and 5 stamens, anthers collect to form a tube shape, yellowish-white. Stigma has a long cylindrical shape, apex is slightly branched. Soft texture, faint odor, slightly bitter taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is reddish-yellow, fresh, dry and soft.
Properties
Acrid; warm.
Functions
Boosts blood, frees channels, disperses stasis, stops pains. Apply to menostasia, painful menstruation, retention of the lochia, abdominal mass, chest impediment and pain, abdominal stagnation and pain, chest and flank sting, traumatic injury, sore swelling pain.
Origin
The dried flower of Carthamus tinctorius L.(Asteraceae)

SafflowerHerbs in the formula

Yang-Supplementing and Five-Returning Decoction

Yang-Supplementing and Five-Returning Decoction

Action:Supplements qi, invigorates blood, and unblocks the collaterals.
Indication:Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang is indicated for wind-strike due to qi deficiency and blood stasis marked by hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eye, sluggish speech, involuntary salivation from the mouth, frequent urination or enuresis, a dark tongue body with a white coating, and a slow, weak pulse.
Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

Action:Invigorates blood and dispels stasis, soothes liver and unblocks the collaterals.
Indication:Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang is indicated for injuries from falls, fractures, contusions, and strains, as well as, patterns of blood stasis marked by unbearable hypochondriac pain due to obstructive stasis.
Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction

Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction

Action:Invigorates blood, dissolves stasis, and moves qi to relieve pain.
Indication:Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang is indicated for blood stasis in the chest. Symptoms include chest pain, headache, and chronic stabbing pain at a fixed location, continual hiccups or choking when drinking water, nausea, internal heat, dizziness, severe palpitations, insomnia, dreaminess, impatience, irascibility, tidal fever at night, dark lips or eyes, a dark red tongue with ecchymosis or purple spots, and a choppy or wiry, tight pulse.
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