Can I drink saffron when I’m on my period?

Saffron that is the Chinese medicine crocus sativus, can be appropriate to drink when your period comes, but women with excessive menstrual flow, should not be used. Crocus sativus is the dried stigma of the iris plant saffron, which has the effects of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis (promoting blood circulation and eliminating blood stasis in the body), cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin (referring to the treatment of blood-heat and toxin embodiment), and relieving depression and tranquilizing the mind. Saffron can be used clinically to treat menstrual obstruction and impediment in the abdomen (women with lumps in the lower abdomen), postpartum stagnation, warm-heat poisonous spots (warm-heat poisonous evils invading the body causing spots and plaques on the skin), depression and congestion, and palpitations and frenzy. In daily life, when used as a tea substitute, crocus sativus plays a limited role. Although it does not replace its therapeutic effect as a medicine, it can also have some of the above effects, and has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on the above diseases. The adverse effects of this product is not clear, pregnant women should be careful to use this drug, menstruating women do not belong to the contraindications of the crowd, so you can drink this drug tea, but be careful not to overdose. If menstruating women, excessive menstrual flow, it is not recommended to drink, may lead to excessive menstruation. Patients who need to use this drug, should be under the guidance of a doctor, not unauthorized use of drugs.