Botanical Name Crocus Sativus
Common Name Saffron
Family Iridaceae
Part-Used Dried stigmas
Native – India, Spain, Sicily, and Iran.
Active Compounds - Mono and diglycosyl esters of the polyene dicarboxylic acid crcetin.
Medicinal Properties – expectorant, sedative, stimulant, rejuvenative, alterative, anodyne, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, appetizer, carminative, emmenagogue.
Uses – Saffron is useful for treating anemia, chlorosis and seminal debility. Used for rheumatism and neuralgia, for looseness of the bowels, to relieve flatulent colic, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, for painful affections of the uterus, for headaches, for bruises and superficial sores, hemorrhoids and snake bite. Saffron is used in sedatives, as an antispasmodic and for flatulence, fevers, melancholia, enlargement of the liver, and asthma. Saffron has been used, in small doses only, for coughs, whooping cough, stomach gas, gastrointestinal colic and insomnia. It serves as a stimulant to appetite; and a salve for treatment of gout.
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