Can you drink saffron to get your period?

Excessive drinking of saffron may lead to menstruation, and patients should take saffron in accordance with medical advice. Safflower is a traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried flowers of safflower plant in the family of Asteraceae, its efficacy is to dispel blood stasis and relieve pain (remove blood stasis in order to relieve pain), activate blood circulation and promote menstruation, mainly used in the treatment of stasis and blood stasis obstruction of menstrual occlusion, dysmenorrhea, chest paralysis (stuffy and painful in the chest), cardiac pain, stasis of blood and abdominal pain, bruises, obstruction in the abdomen (the appearance of tangible or invisible accumulation of mass in the abdomen, with a feeling of distension and pain), dystonia (pain in the area of the ribs and legs), stagnation of swelling and pain, and other conditions. Since saffron has the effect of activating blood circulation, overdose may cause patients to have menstruation. Saffron is used as a decoction to be taken internally. Note that pregnant women and people with excessive menstruation are forbidden to take this product. It should be noted that if the patient’s menstruation is delayed, it is recommended to go to a regular medical institution in a timely manner, under the guidance of a physician to standardize the treatment, do not take unauthorized medication, so as to avoid delaying the condition.