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紅花 Honghua
Chinese Name |
紅花 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Honghua |
English Name |
Safflower |
Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Carthami Flos |
Category |
Flowers
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Origin |
The dried flower of Carthamus tinctorius L.(Asteraceae) |
Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. |
Macroscopic Features |
The tube-shape Flowers without ovary; externally reddish-yellow or red; thin and long corolla tube, with 5 narrow strip-shaped petal lobes; and 5 stamens, anthers collect to form a tube shape, yellowish-white. Stigma has a long cylindrical shape, apex is slightly branched. Soft texture, faint odor, slightly bitter taste. |
Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material is reddish-yellow, fresh, dry and soft. |
Properties |
Acrid; warm. |
Functions |
Boosts blood, frees channels, disperses stasis, stops pains. Apply to menostasia, painful menstruation, retention of the lochia, abdominal mass, chest impediment and pain, abdominal stagnation and pain, chest and flank sting, traumatic injury, sore swelling pain. |
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Permanent URL:https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00319
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