Saffron crocus aurum vegetabile Crocus sativus L dried flower stigma Xi hong hua

Product Description

Saffron; crocus;aurum vegetabile Crocus sativus L

Chinese name:xi hong hua/zang hong hua/fan hong hua

Precious & valuable herb medicine in China.

Herb property:tastes sweet,and mild feature

Effects:activate blood ,relieve and scatter stasis,Dissipate stagnation and Resolve Stagnation,stop pains.

Typical prescription:

Herbs and quantity:Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipech 150g;dried Bitter Orange 150g;Corydalis yanhusuo W. T. Wang ex Z. Y. Su et C. Y. Wu 150g;Rheum palmatum L;Polygonum cuspidatum 150g;Christina Loosestrife Herb 300g;Rabdosia serra (Maxim.) Hara 300g;Gardenia jasminoides Ellis dried fruits 120g;saffron 30g

Treat for:gallstones

Plant description:

Human cultivation and use of saffron spans more than 3,500 years and extends across cultures, continents, and civilizations. Saffron, a spice derived from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), has through history remained among the world's most costly substances. With its bitter taste, hay-like fragrance, and slight metallic notes, the apocarotenoid-rich saffron has been used as a seasoning, fragrance, dye, and medicine.

The saffron crocus is a genetically monomorphic clone native to Southwest Asia; it was probably first cultivated in or near Persia. The wild precursor of domesticated saffron crocus was likely Crocus cartwrightianus, which originated in Crete or Central Asia; C. thomasii and C. pallasii are other possible sources. The saffron crocus is now a triploid that is "self-incompatible" and male sterile; it undergoes aberrant meiosis and is hence incapable of independent sexual reproduction—all propagation is by vegetative multiplication via manual "divide-and-set" of a starter clone or by interspecific hybridisation. If C. sativus is a mutant form of C. cartwrightianus, then it may have emerged in late Bronze Age Crete.

Humans may have bred C. cartwrightianus specimens by screening for specimens with abnormally long stigmas. The resulting saffron crocus was documented in a 7th-century BC Assyrian botanical reference compiled under Ashurbanipal,and it has since been traded and used over the course of four millennia and has been used as treatment for some ninety disorders. The C. sativus clone was slowly propagated throughout much of Eurasia, later reaching parts of North Africa, North America, and Oceania. Global production on a by-mass basis is now dominated by Iran, which accounts for some 90% of the annual harvest.

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