Safflower, with strong blood circulation, is often used in various menstrual and postpartum gynecological diseases and intractable diseases.

Safflower was called red and blue flower in Zhang Zhongjing's time, such as red and blue flower wine in synopsis of the golden chamber, which was only used for gynecological blood stasis syndrome.

As a commonly used medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, safflower has two main functions, one is to dredge menstruation, and the other is to relieve pain. Therefore, it is widely used for irregular menstruation and blood stasis pain. "Women are based on blood", and safflower is often used in various gynecological diseases, including some refractory gynecological diseases.

There is also a Chinese medicine called saffron, also called saffron and saffron, which is not a medicine. Different plants have different parts that can be used. But their effects are similar, so we will talk about the differences between them next time.

1, blood stasis dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, irregular menstruation

Safflower is good at regulating menstruation and is often used for dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea caused by blood stasis. Single use can be effective, such as the red and blue flower wine in synopsis of the golden chamber, which Zhang Zhongjing said is used for "women's sixty-two kinds of wind, and the blood gas in their stomachs stings." It means that Chinese medicine believes that after the menstrual period and puerperium, insufficient blood gas's qi deficiency can easily lead to the invasion of exogenous pathogens, and the atmosphere and blood gas compete with each other to form blood stasis. Blood stasis leads to abdominal tingling, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.

To enhance the curative effect, it is often used with other herbs for regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, such as Gezhuyu Decoction in Yilin Gaicuo and Taohong Siwu Decoction in Zong Yi Jinjian. All of them are used equally with peach kernel and angelica for irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis or blood deficiency and blood stasis.

Peach kernel and safflower, in particular, are a common pair of blood-activating drugs, which complement each other when used together, and one plus one is greater than two.

China Pharmacopoeia's Gexia Zhuyu Decoction, Taohong Siwu Decoction and Fuke Tongjing Pill can be used for dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, and can also be used for menstrual disorders such as late menstruation, oligomenorrhea and irregular menstruation caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis.

2, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, lochia and other postpartum diseases.

Postpartum viscera weakness. A little carelessness in daily life is easy to catch a cold and form blood stasis syndrome. Blood stasis hurts if it doesn't work, so postpartum abdominal pain or lochia often occurs. Lochiorrhea is that after the placenta is delivered, the residual bloody liquid in the uterus can not be retained, and blood is still dripping for more than 20 days, accompanied by mild abdominal pain, mostly caused by blood stasis.

Safflower is also a commonly used medicine for postpartum blood stasis syndrome. For example, Jisheng's outstanding safflower powder is used with lotus leaves, pollen typhae, angelica sinensis and peony bark.

Modern postpartum capsules (safflower, peach kernel, angelica, motherwort, Ligusticum Chuanxiong, dried ginger, licorice) are used for 42 days postpartum lochia or irregular uterine bleeding, with obvious effect and no obvious toxic and side effects, and can be used for lactation [Journal of Qiqihar Medical College, 2009,30 (1): 26].

At the same time, postpartum blood stasis and adverse qi can also disturb the mind, leading to dizziness, inability to sit up, or restlessness, nausea and vomiting, excessive phlegm, shortness of breath, upset, and even syncope, which is called postpartum blood halo. Carthamus tinctorius has strong blood circulation, and can be used for such diseases, and the effect can be achieved by fumigation and washing with decoction for external use.

3. Vomiting during menstruation

Vomiting during menstruation refers to the situation that menstrual blood goes up with the pulse-rushing qi, resulting in vomiting blood and nosebleeds. Common in adolescent girls, but also in women of childbearing age, equivalent to western medicine's "compensatory menstruation." The etiology of traditional Chinese medicine is mostly blood-heat rash caused by liver depression, or deficiency of lung and kidney yin, inflammation of deficiency fire and damage of blood collaterals.

You can use the Xuefu Zhuyu decoction in Yilingaicuo, and use safflower with peach kernel, Achyranthes bidentata, Fructus Aurantii and Angelica sinensis.

4. Abdominal mass

Abdominal mass, a proper term in traditional Chinese medicine, is called abdominal mass accumulation (symptom, sound: sign; In fact, it refers to several kinds of abdominal masses, which are tangible, intangible, pain-limited, or pain-limited. Long-term emotional depression or dietary injury often leads to dysfunction of zang-fu organs, which leads to blood stasis in the abdomen and causes various lumps. It covers all kinds of gynecological benign tumors and is a common and difficult disease in gynecology.

Clinically, it is often combined with rhubarb, tabanus and other powerful Chinese medicines, such as Dahonghua Pill in Xuan Ming Lun Fang. "China Pharmacopoeia" Hua Zheng Shenghui Dan, with safflower mixed with sappan, peach kernel, frankincense, myrrh, etc. , can break blood, dissipate blood stasis, and dissipate stagnation.

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5, back to milk

Zhang Jingyue in the Ming Dynasty mentioned in "The Complete Book of the Pure Moon" that women's milk is transformed from Chong Ren's qi and blood, while water flows downward and milk flows upward. Therefore, the methods of promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals and leading blood downward can be used to restore milk.

For example, in Yin Ji Materia Medica, it is used with safflower, Paeonia Rubra, angelica tail and Radix Cyathulae, and is used for returning milk or leaking milk for a long time.

1, safflower decoction has obvious exciting effect on uterus, especially for pregnant animals, large dose can make uterus contract to the degree of spasm.

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1, contraindication for pregnant women.

2, bleeding tendency, menorrhagia should not be used.

3, blood deficiency without blood stasis is contraindicated.

4. Some patients may have allergic reactions, such as itchy rash, edema, abdominal pain, poor breathing, scanty urine, conjunctival congestion, laryngeal edema, limb twitching, and rapid heartbeat. If the patient is mild, stop taking the medicine and relieve it. If the patient is seriously ill, please seek medical advice in time.

When safflower is put into clear water, the solution will turn golden yellow (or orange yellow), but safflower will not fade.

The fake aqueous solution is turbid and reddish brown, and there is sediment at the bottom of the cup, and the color of the flower will fade.

The function of safflower can be used not only for gynecological diseases, but also for promoting blood circulation, such as heartache, traumatic injury, headache, dizziness, stroke, facial diseases and dermatoses. Let's talk about other functions of safflower next time. And talk about the difference between safflower and saffron.

reference data

Illustration of Materia Medica, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, Supplement and Correction of Yilin, China Pharmacopoeia, China Clinical Traditional Chinese Medicine and Zhang Tingmo Clinical Traditional Chinese Medicine Lecture Notes.

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