Crocus, Saffron, Xi Hong Hua 西红花

Kum Kuma (Sanskrit)
Safran (Hindi)
Xi Hong Hua, Fan Hong Hua (TCM)
Zafrah (Unani)
Gur Gum  གུར་གུམ  (Tibetan)
Della Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562


Flora von Deutschland, Kohler, 1886

Saffron Filaments from Iran

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Uses:
1. Strengthens the Heart and Spirit:
-‘Greatest of all Vegetable Cordials, quickens the senses, exhilarates the Heart, Revives the Spirits, Natural, Vital, and Animal; Resists Poison, Plague and all Malign and Pestilential Fevers... Prolongs Life and Health’ (Salmon)

2. Moves the Blood, Opens Obstructions, Resolves Masses:

3. Benefits the Heart, Moves the Blood, Resists Poison:

4. Opens and Strengthens the Liver:

5. Strengthens the Lungs:

6. Strengthens the Kidneys:

7. Moves the Blood, Promotes Menstruation and Birth:


Dose:
Dosage range: 50mg–1200mg

Correctives:
... available in PRO version

Substitutes:
... available in PRO version
Main Combinations:
Camphor & Saffron
Peach kernel / Bitter Almond kernel & Saffron / Safflower

1. Fever:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Burning Fever, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
2. Children's Fever, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
3. To preserve from Infection during Epidemics:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
4. Strengthen the Heart:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
5. Cold affections of the Brain; Melancholy, Vertigo, Dizziness and Heart disorders, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
6. To move the Blood, clear Stasis and resolve Bruising:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
iii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
7. To promote Menstruation:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
iii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
iv. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
v. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
vi. to strongly promote Menstruation, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
8. To Promote Birth:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
iii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
9. Cough:
i. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
ii. Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
10. Cough, Asthma, Wheezing, Chest Pain, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
11. Shortness of Breath, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
12. Headache, Migraine:
i. from Bile and Phlegm, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
ii. Migraine, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
13. Loss of Speech, Apoplexy, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
14. Poor Memory, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
15. Liver heat, Hepatitis, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
16. Sclerosis of the Liver, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
17. Jaundice, Saffron with ... available in PRO version
18. Pain from Bruising, Blood Stagnation, and chronic Pains, as a Plaster, Saffron with  ... available in PRO version
19. Oil of Saffron, to ease Pain, strengthen the Nerves; Headache, Neuralgia, Uterine pain etc ... available in PRO version
20. 'Oriental Joy Pills': Saffron with ... available in PRO version

Major Formulas
Tincture of Saffron
Troches of Saffron (Damocrates)
Troches of Saffron (Nicholas)
Electuary of Saffron Lesser (Diacrocon Minus) (Mesue)
Electuary of Saffron Greater (Diacrocon Majores) (Mesue)

Tincture of Juniper Compound
Infusion for Jaundice (Riverius)
Decoction Against Retention of Menstruation
Emmenagogue Decoction (Riverius)
Electuary of Rose (Unani)
Lohoch Effective for Asthma (Serapion)
Confection for Catarrh
Hiera Picra
Birth Powder
Powder to Move Blood (Wirtzung)
Powder to Promote Menstruation (Riverius)
Powder to Strengthen the Heart (Wirtzung)
Powder for Melancholy (Philon)
Powder for Childrens Fever (Tibetan Medicine)
Troches Praised for Liver Hardness (Nicholas)
Pills of Ruffus (Common Pills, or Pestilential Pills)
Pills for Headache from Bile and Phlegm
Pills to Strongly Promote Menstruation

Cautions:
1. Not used during pregnancy or heavy Menstruation
2. Toxic in overdose; 1 ½–2 grams can be toxic.

Main Preparations used:
Diacurcuma, Tincture or Essence of Saffron, Extract, Oil of Saffron, Troches of Saffron, Plaster of Oxycrocum