The efficacy of safflower glutinous rice porridge

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, lochia retention, lumps and masses, and injuries from falls. The ancients often added a handful of safflower when blood was in the body: wrapped in gauze and boiled, it can be used to soak feet twice a day. It is suitable for various varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, and blood circulation. Promoting blood circulation can promote menstruation; removing blood stasis and relieving pain. Safflower is pungent and warm in nature, and it belongs to the heart and liver meridians. The aroma is fragrant and dispersing, and it enters the blood and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. It mainly treats dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum blood fainting, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, chest pain, blood stasis, bruises and swelling, joint pain, stroke paralysis, and dark purple macules.

1. Effects on the cardiovascular system:

1.1. Cardioinhibitory effect:

A small dose of safflower decoction can slightly excite the isolated heart of a toad and the in vivo heart of a rabbit, making the heartbeat stronger and the amplitude larger; a large dose has an inhibitory effect on the heart, slowing the heart rate, weakening the myocardial contractility, and reducing the cardiac output.

1.2. Experimental studies on coronary blood flow show that:

Safflower water extract and safflower water-soluble mixture - safflower yellow pigment can increase coronary blood flow and myocardial nutritional blood flow; while the effect of safflower ethanol extract on dilating coronary arteries and increasing coronary blood flow is not obvious or has no effect.

1.3. Experimental studies on experimental myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction have shown that:

In animal models of experimental myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction in rabbits, rats, dogs, etc., safflower and its preparations have different degrees of antagonistic effects. Safflower can significantly protect rats or rabbits from acute myocardial ischemia caused by posterior pituitary hormone; it can significantly reduce the degree of acute myocardial ischemia in anesthetized dogs caused by repeated short-term blockage of coronary artery blood flow, reduce the scope, slow down the heart rate, and protect the edge of the acute myocardial infarction area, thereby reducing the scope of infarction and reducing the amplitude of ST segment elevation in the edge area of ​​the electrocardiogram, thereby improving the supply and demand relationship of ischemic myocardial oxygen.