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Other names of saffron

Fanhonghua, Xihonghua.

Habits of saffron

Saffron is a typical autumn-planted bulbous flower, native to southern Europe. It prefers cool, humid, and semi-shaded environments, and is relatively cold-tolerant.

Saffron is suitable for growing in well-drained, humus-rich sandy loam.pH value 5.5-6.5.

Saffron corms dormancy in summer, and root and sprout leaves in autumn.10 It blooms in late month, and the flowers open by day and close at night.

Value of saffron

Medicinal: Saffron is a famous precious traditional Chinese medicinal material. Its dried stigmas are sweet in taste and neutral in nature, can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, relieve stagnation and open knots, and stop pain. It is used to treat depression and stagnation, chest and diaphragm distention and stuffiness, vomiting blood, typhoid fever with mania, fright and trance, women's amenorrhea, blood-stagnant irregular menstruation, postpartum lochia, blood stasis pain, measles, bruises and injuries, etc.

Dietary: Saffron is used as a coloring and flavoring condiment in Mediterranean regions, Eastern dishes, Arab and Indian cuisine, as well as in bread in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and the Balkans. It is also an important ingredient in French bouillabaisse and Spanish paella. Common ways to eat it include oral use, soaking in water, soaking in alcohol, in meals, and steamed eggs, but saffron should not be used too much.

Spice: Saffron's pungent golden stigmas are very precious, used for food flavoring and coloring, and also used as a dye.

Saffron flower meaning

Happiness.