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Saffron & Myrrh

Myrrh is Warm, Bitter and enters the main blood vessel to move Blood, clears Stasis, resolve Obstructions and relieve Pain. It is most used for Trauma and Bruising, Gynecological disorders, Pain from Blood Stasis, as well as for Cold obstruction of the Lungs. It also is regarded as very strong against Poison.

Saffron is Neutral (classed as Cooling by some, Warming by others), and is Pungent and Sweet. It enters the finer capillaries of the Blood circulation and reolves Stasis of the capillaries, eases Pain and is used in Antidotes against Poison. It is also viewed as a strengthening medicine for the Heart, Liver, Lungs, Kidney and Uterus.

Together, they compliment each other in promoting Circulation, clearing Stasis, resolving Masses and relieving Pain.They are widely combined in Blood moving formulas for Trauma, Gynecoliogical disorders, Pain from Blood Stasis, Masses and Tumors, Heart diseases, as well as to Resist Poison and prevent Infection.

They are specifically used in Trauma (internally and externally), to promote Labor, for Masses and Tumors, and Heart disorders.

Key Indications

• Trauma, Bruising
• Menstrual pain, Gynecological Masses
• Promotes Labor
  
• Chronic and Fixed Pain including Arthritic Pain
• Hard Masses, Fibroids, Tumors (Internally and Topically)
• Against Poison and Infection

Examples
Swedish Bitters
Tincture for Suppressed Menstruation
Potion for Difficult Labor

Powder of Madder
Powder for the Lungs
Powder to Move Blood (Wirtzung)
Powder to Facilitate Birth (Renodeus)
Birth Powder
Troches to Strengthen the Lungs
Troches of Coral (Diacorallium) (Nicholas)
Foetid Pills (Mesue)
Pills for Arthritis (Wirtzung)
Pills for Cold and Moist Cough of Paulus
Pills of Storax (Mesue)
Pills for Pestilence
Pills of Opopanax (De morbus internis curandis)
Pills of Ruffus (Common Pills, or Pestilential Pills)

Antidote Appropriate for Cough (Nicholas)
Hiera Pachi, or Hiera Archigenis
Confection for Catarrh
Electuary of Costus (Mesue)
Electuary of Eggs (Maximilian)
Electuary of Saffron Lesser (Diacrocon Minus) (Mesue)
Electuary of Saffron Greater (Diacrocon Majores) (Mesue)
Lohoch Effective for Asthma (Serapion)

Plaster for Uterine Tumors (Aristotle)
Powder for Phlegmatic Abscess of the Throat

Additions
1. To resist Poison and prevent Infection, add Aloe (as in Pills of Ruffus)
2. To resist Poison and Prevent Infection, add Aloe, Senna, Rhubarb, Zedoary, Angelica, Camphor (as in Swedish Bitters)
3. Catarrh, add Indian Spikenard, Storax.
4. Cold Phlegm Cough and Asthma, add Flowers of Sulphur, Mastic, Aloe.
5. Cough, Asthma, add Storax, Frankincense, Licorice juice
6. Also for Asthma, add Squill, Orris, Hyssop
7. Lung weakness, add Rose, Pomegranate flower, Tragacanth, Mastic
8. Chronic Cold Pain of the abdomen or Hard Masses in the abdomen, add Cinnamon, Costus, Indian Spikenard
9. Blood Stasis, add Frankincense, Dragon's Blood.
10 To promote Birth, add Cassia Wood and Amber (as in Birth Powder)
11. To Promote Birth, add Pennyroyal, Galbanum, Cinnamon
12. Arthritic Pain, add Germander, Ground Pine, Aloe
13. Hardness, add Gum Ammoniacum
14. Plaster for Uterine Tumors, add Bdellium, Gum Ammoniac and Opopanax
15. Topically to swollen sore Throat, add Ginger, Mustard seed, Gall