| Botanical Name |
Crocus Sativus |
| Common Name |
Kesar |
| Family |
Iridaceae |
| Part-Used |
Dried stigmas |
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Description:
Saffron is a small perennial plant which is cultivated particularly in France , Spain , Sicily , and Iran .
Active Compounds:
Mono and diglycosyl estersof the polyene dicarboxylic acid crcetin.
Medicinal Properties:
Alterative, anodyne, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, appetizer, carminative, emmenagogue, expectorant, sedative, stimulant, rejuvenative
Uses:
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. Saffron is used in sedatives, as an antispasmodic and for flatulence, fevers, melancholia, enlargement of the liver, and asthma. Saffron is also useful for treating anemia, chlorosis and seminal debility. And also 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. 
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