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Recipes with Saffron: Lemon & Saffron Tapioca Pudding
Cooling Blood Purifier Saffron is a nourishing purifier that invigorates and moves the blood while cooling it. Saffron breaks up blood clots and clears liver stagnation. While most blood movers are heating, saffron is unique among blood movers for its cooling properties. This makes saffron a useful herb for Pitta disorders with blood stagnation, including inflammation, arthritis, acne, and hepatitis.
Skin Tonic Saffron's ability to dilate the blood vessels encourages sweating and opening the pores (diaphoretic), effectively cleansing the skin and restoring a healthy glow. Saffron is also a cardiotonic that destroys phlegm. A paste is used topically in bruises and sores. Its blood moving qualities enhance digestion.
Cools the mind Saffron is a refrigerant for the mind. It's Pitta pacifying qualities have been used to restore eyesight and to lower fevers.
Reproductive Tonic Saffron with milk and ghee is a nourishing reproductive tonic for both men and women. Saffron's blood moving qualities are particularly desirable among herbs that stimulate the release of oxytocin, the "tend and befriend" hormone, supporting saffron's use to encourage mother's milk flow (galactagogue), and to contract and restore the uterus after giving birth. Like most oxytocic herbs, saffron is an abortifascient and should not be used during pregnancy. Its blood moving qualities can stimulate the menses (emmenagogue).
Urinary Tract Saffron is also a purifying diuretic for urinary disorders. Saffron is mixed with honey for urinary stones. The recommended dosage of saffron is 1.5 to 3 grams of dried herb, usually taken as a decoction.
About Saffron
Saffron's use is ancient. Saffron-based pigments have been found in 50,000 year-old paintings in northwest Iran. It conjures romance, royalty, and delicacy wherever it appears. Alexander the Great bathed in saffron to cure battle wounds. Cultivated saffron emerged in late Bronze Age Crete, bred from its wild precursor by selecting for unusually long stigmas making the plant sterile. Called Kumkum or Kesar in Ayurveda, it also appears as an important medicinal herb in many ancient texts including Ayurveda, Unani, and Chinese Medicine.
Buying & Preparation
Luxurious and expensive, it takes approximately 75,000 saffron flowers to produce one pound of saffron stigma. The saffron trade is wrought with as many scandals as the diamond trade. Make sure your source doesn't use red dye to fake the saffron. Safflower stamens are another popular fake. Always buy from a reputable source.
Saffron likes climates where hot, dry summer breezes sweep semi-arid lands. It is native to southwesern asia.
Cooking Saffron
Grind saffron in a mortar and pestle. Add a few drops of water and continue grinding until completely mashed. Then soak in two tbsp water for 10 minutes.
Saffron is used in sweet and savory dishes alike, where it imparts an elegant and classy touch to any recipe. It is especially popular in the decadant mughlai dishes of northern india. It is a signature ingredient of Spanish paella. Saffron is widely used in Persian, Arab, Central Asian, European, Indian, Turkish, and Cornish cuisines.
Saffron has a 'metallic honey' bitter taste and hay-like fragrance.
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AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
See How it Works.
Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick.
Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.
Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food.
Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body.
Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food.
Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods.
Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion.
Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste.
One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes.
The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.
Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia.
They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature.
Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.
Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.
Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Saffron
Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary.
The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.
Stimulates the release of gas. Helpful for bloating or cramping abdominal pain. Propels food downward. Carminatives typically expel gas by relaxing the muscles of the intestines.
An herb that strengthens spleen function by improving strength of the blood. Spleen tonics Builds agni, brighten the person's appearances & firms up tissues.
An herb that increases appetite or settles a nauseas or nervous stomach. These generally increase the digestive fire, therefore relieving symptoms of sluggish or difficult digestion.
Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.
Strengthens and tones the heart (heart-tonic). Cardiac tonics are used to treat a wide range of heart issues from arrhythmia, to cardiac insufficiency.
A herb that contracts tissue or blood vessels. Generally styptics are astringent. They are often used topically as a hemostatic to stop bleeding, or to reduce secretions.
MILD BLOOD-TONIC
An herb that produces more blood cells in the body, or otherwise improves blood cell quality or hemoglobin content. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency.
Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.
An herb that strengthens the liver. It is helpful for people with a history of substance abuse, chronic liver issues from hepatitis and hemolytic anemias. Generally, liver tonics are oily, cool, sweet, mildly sour, or contain beta-carotene.
Herbs that increase sexual arousal through various actions including increased circulation, relaxation, stimulation, or tonics that strengthen glandular health.
Herbs which stimulate menstruation. Emmenagogues are used for scanty menstruation, to relieve menstrual pain, and improve blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus.
In each study below, students from the
Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda ate the selected food for 3 days and reported the effects.
See other studies of food & herbs at Joyful Belly.
TEMPERATURE/CIRCULATION
How did Saffron affect your temperature?
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2
18
9
0
Much colder
Slightly colder
Same
Slightly warmer
Much warmer
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your ear temperature?
30
24
18
12
6
0
3
26
0
Hotter
No Change
Cooler
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your sweat quantity?
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4
0
0
2
17
10
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of your skin?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
2
5
0
22
Yellower/Greener
Paler
Redder
Grayer
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of your tongue body?
20
16
12
8
4
0
2
13
0
14
Paler
Redder
Bluer
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the swelling of your tongue body?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
1
27
More Swelling
Less Swelling
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your appetite/hunger?
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12
8
4
0
0
5
18
5
1
Much less hungry
Slightly less hungry
Same
Slightly hungrier
Much hungrier
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your digestion speed?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
13
15
1
0
Much faster
Slightly faster
Same
Slightly slower
Much slower
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
TOXINS
How did Saffron affect the amount of gas & bloating?
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4
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0
11
15
3
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your stool smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
3
23
3
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the thickness & size of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
9
15
3
1
Much smaller
Slightly less
Same
Slightly larger coating
Much larger
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
9
0
1
2
17
Yellower
Browner
Grayer
Whiter
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your throat soreness?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
26
2
More sore
No Change
Less sore
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your urine smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
27
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the amount of bubbles in your urine?
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6
0
0
2
23
3
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Many more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your sweat smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
0
27
1
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your acne?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
25
4
More acne
No Change
Less acne
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your freckles/moles?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
28
1
Darker
No Change
Lighter
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of your sclera (white part of eye)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
0
0
0
2
Redder/Bloodshot
Yellower
Grayer
Browner
Whiter
27
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of the lower eye lid?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
0
29
0
More green/dark green
More purple
No Change
Less green/purple
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
HYDRATION
How did Saffron affect your urine frequency/quantity?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
3
16
8
2
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the dryness of your skin?
30
24
18
12
6
0
6
0
23
Drier
Oilier
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the puffiness of lower eye lid?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
4
Puffier
No Change
Less Puffy
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the cracks on your tongue?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
1
19
7
1
Larger/longer/more cracks
Slightly more
Same
Slightly less/smaller/shorter
Much less
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
FLUID-THICKNESS
How did Saffron affect your ear pressure?
30
24
18
12
6
0
2
26
1
More pressure
No Change
Less pressure
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your congestion?
21
17
13
9
5
1
2
15
12
More congestion
No Change
Less congestion
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the thickness of your mucous congestion?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
17
12
More thick
No Change
Less thick
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
NERVOUS-SYSTEM
How did Saffron affect your energy levels?
20
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12
8
4
0
0
5
15
6
3
Much less energy
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more energy
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your muscle tension?
25
20
15
10
5
0
2
5
20
2
0
Much less tension
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more tension
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your anxiety?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
9
17
2
0
Much less anxiety
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more anxiety
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the stillness of your tongue?
30
24
18
12
6
0
4
24
1
More still
No Change
More Trembling / Jittery
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
DIGESTION
How did Saffron affect your digestion speed?
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12
8
4
0
0
13
15
1
0
Much faster
Slightly faster
Same
Slightly slower
Much slower
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the amount of gas & bloating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
11
15
3
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your appetite/hunger?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
5
18
5
1
Much less hungry
Slightly less hungry
Same
Slightly hungrier
Much hungrier
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect burning sensations in digestive tract (do not include acid reflux)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
3
24
2
0
Much relief
Slight relief
Same
Slightly more burning
Much more burning
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
TONGUE
How did Saffron affect the color of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
9
0
1
2
17
Yellower
Browner
Grayer
Whiter
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the swelling of your tongue body?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
1
27
More Swelling
Less Swelling
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the stillness of your tongue?
30
24
18
12
6
0
4
24
1
More still
No Change
More Trembling / Jittery
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the thickness & size of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
9
15
3
1
Much smaller
Slightly less
Same
Slightly larger coating
Much larger
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the cracks on your tongue?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
1
19
7
1
Larger/longer/more cracks
Slightly more
Same
Slightly less/smaller/shorter
Much less
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of your tongue body?
20
16
12
8
4
0
2
13
0
14
Paler
Redder
Bluer
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
STOOL
How did Saffron affect your stool lightness?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
6
18
5
0
Much lighter
Slightly lighter
Same
Slightly darker
Much darker
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your stool smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
3
23
3
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your stool consistency?
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12
8
4
0
0
5
16
7
1
Much softer
Slightly softer
Same
Slightly harder
Much harder
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your stool frequency/quantity?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
3
19
6
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your stool color?
25
20
15
10
5
0
3
0
1
4
21
More yellow
More gray
More green
More orange
Same
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
URINE
How did Saffron affect your urine clarity?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
25
4
More cloudy
Same
More clear
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your urine smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
27
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your urine lightness?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
4
19
6
0
Much lighter
Slightly lighter
Same
Slightly Darker
Much Darker
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your urine frequency/quantity?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
3
16
8
2
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the amount of bubbles in your urine?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
2
23
3
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Many more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
SWEAT
How did Saffron affect your sweat quantity?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
2
17
10
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your sweat smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
0
27
1
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
SKIN
How did Saffron affect your freckles/moles?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
28
1
Darker
No Change
Lighter
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your acne?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
25
4
More acne
No Change
Less acne
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the dryness of your skin?
30
24
18
12
6
0
6
0
23
Drier
Oilier
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of your skin?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
2
5
0
22
Yellower/Greener
Paler
Redder
Grayer
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
EYE
How did Saffron affect the color of your sclera (white part of eye)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
0
0
0
2
Redder/Bloodshot
Yellower
Grayer
Browner
Whiter
27
No Change
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the color of the lower eye lid?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
0
29
0
More green/dark green
More purple
No Change
Less green/purple
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect the puffiness of lower eye lid?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
4
Puffier
No Change
Less Puffy
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
ENT
How did Saffron affect the thickness of your mucous congestion?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
17
12
More thick
No Change
Less thick
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your ear temperature?
30
24
18
12
6
0
3
26
0
Hotter
No Change
Cooler
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your congestion?
21
17
13
9
5
1
2
15
12
More congestion
No Change
Less congestion
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your ear pressure?
30
24
18
12
6
0
2
26
1
More pressure
No Change
Less pressure
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your throat soreness?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
26
2
More sore
No Change
Less sore
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
SYSTEMIC
How did Saffron affect your muscle tension?
25
20
15
10
5
0
2
5
20
2
0
Much less tension
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more tension
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your anxiety?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
9
17
2
0
Much less anxiety
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more anxiety
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your temperature?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
2
18
9
0
Much colder
Slightly colder
Same
Slightly warmer
Much warmer
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your energy levels?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
5
15
6
3
Much less energy
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more energy
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
HEART
How did Saffron affect your heart pain/pressure/cramping?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
0
29
0
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your heart rate?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
2
24
3
0
Much slower
Slightly slower
Same
Slightly faster
Much faster
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
How did Saffron affect your heart rhythm?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
29
0
More palpitations
Same
Less palpitations
Total Responses: 29 Study ID:127 (2023-01-11 - 2023-01-16)
Saffron may be beneficial for these symptoms.
The suitability of any food for a condition is highly dependent on the individual.
Please see your doctor before using this food to treat a medical condition.
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CONTRAINDICATED FOR THESE SYMPTOMS
Saffron may be harmful or contraindicated for these symptoms.
Please see your doctor before using this food to treat a medical condition.
Herb Drug Interaction Risk
Here are some potential herb drug interactions with Saffron. Please see your health care provider for more information.
Antidepressant: Do not combine with antihistamines.
Blood-thinner: Patients on warfarin (coumadin) and other anticoagulants, or who have clotting difficulties, should take special caution to only use blood thinners under the supervision of a medical doctor.
Cardiac-tonic: Caution when taking alongside cardiac pharmaceuticals. Inotropic herbs (that affect heart contractile strength) may interact with digoxin.
Diuretic: Diuretics may clear pharmaceutical drugs more quickly, lowering the effect. Avoid if taking water pills or pharmaceutical diuretics.
Livotonic: Anything that strengthens or cleanses the liver can clear drugs more quickly, requiring a higher dose.
Sedative: Do not combine nerve suppressing sedatives with nerve stimulants, pharmaceutical sedatives, most anxiolyitcs, or antihistamines.
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“I have body and facial acne, Saffron is the answer for my problem. "Grind saffron in a mortar and pestle. Add a few drops of water and continue grinding until completely mashed. Then soak in two tbsp water for 10 minutes". After that, I drink the water or what exactly i should do ? and how often, once a day !! a week !!"
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