Detailed Product Description

We supply over 50 tons of safflower, 2009 new crop,

Quality:selected or gradeless

Packing:cartons

Safflower is cultivated extensively both as a herb and as a food crop. In India, it is known as koosumbha.

Safflower flower has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years. It is used to treat menstrual disorders. Safflower flower is an emmenagogue, meaning that it is given to bring on menstruation. Safflower is also used to treat menstrual pain, to firm up the uterus after childbirth, to ease stiffness and pain in the joints, and sometimes also to treat trauma to the abdomen. According to traditional Chinese usage, safflower flower is a blood regulator; that is, it invigorates and harmonizes the blood and dissolves blood clots. Safflower is said to have a warm nature and a pungent taste. Chinese practitioners use safflower oil in tui na massage.

Safflower flowers are also used to treat such childhood problems as measles, fevers, and skin . And it can be pressed to produce an edible oil. It has other nonmedicinal uses too. Its flowers produce a dye that in times past was used for dyeing silk yellow or red.