There is no research to confirm that saffron can lower uric acid. Elevated uric acid in Chinese medicine does not have a corresponding name of the disease, but the symptoms caused by joint pain, urinary stones and edema, etc. are mostly categorized as “paralysis”, “gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, gonorrhea astringent pain)” “edema” and other categories of traditional Chinese medicine. “Edema” and other categories.
Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of the above symptoms is mostly due to spleen deficiency, dampness, dampness, heat or phlegm, and long into the blood for stasis, resulting in dampness, heat, phlegm, stasis and other evils stasis blockage of blood or meridians and joints and triggered. Although there is no evidence-based medical evidence to support that traditional Chinese medicine can lower uric acid, clinicians may be able to alleviate clinical symptoms through evidence-based treatment according to the patient’s symptoms.
Crocus sativus is sweet in flavor, flat in nature, and belongs to the heart and liver meridians. It has the efficacy of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, relieving depression and tranquilizing the mind. It is mainly used in the treatment of menstrual obstruction (women with lumps in the lower abdomen), postpartum stagnation, warm poisonous spots (warm and hot poisonous evils invade the human body and cause spots and plaques on the skin), melancholic and stuffy, palpitation and madness, and so on.
Patients who suffer from menstrual obstruction, postpartum stasis, warm poisonous spots, etc., which belongs to the syndrome of heat and poisonous blood stasis, can choose Crocus sativus for treatment. However, there is no research to confirm that saffron can lower uric acid. It is contraindicated in pregnant women, and should be used with caution in people with excessive menstruation or bleeding disorders.
Clinical patients with elevated uric acid and the need for Chinese medicine, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital, under the diagnosis of a professional physician treatment, do not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition.