What does crocus look like?

Crocus sativus is the terminal flower with a diameter of 2.5 ~ 3 cm; Perianth 6 pieces, obovate, lavender, tube length 4 ~ 6 cm, thin tube; 3 stamens, large anthers and arrow-shaped base; Pistil 3, carpels connate, ovary inferior, style slender yellow, apex deeply divided, protruding out of the tube.

Pendulous, crimson, slightly enlarged at the top of the stigma, with a funnel-shaped opening. Capsule, long, with three blunt edges, about 3 cm long and 65438 0.5 cm wide, reaches the ground when the fruit is ripe. Seeds are numerous, spherical and leathery. Flowering:165438+1early to mid-October.

Crocus sativus likes plateau environment, and most of it grows on the Iranian plateau above 1500m. The flowering period is from late June of 10 to early October of10 every year, and the flowering period is only fifteen days. At this time, saffron will bloom all over the mountain, and hundreds of thousands of Iranian flower farmers will go up the mountain to pick flowers at this time. Tea is divided into old and new. Similarly, the quality of saffron picked first is higher than that picked later.

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Functional indication

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, resolving stagnation and relieving depression. Treat depression, chest and diaphragm fullness, hematemesis, typhoid fever, palpitation, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, traumatic swelling and pain.

Medicinal material characters

1, the stigma of wet safflower is reddish brown, oily and shiny, slender and linear, about 3 cm long, narrow at the base, gradually widening towards the top, with short cracks inside and irregular teeth at the top edge. Stigmas usually exist alone, and sometimes three stigmas are associated with a short style.

The style is orange. Immersed in water, the stigma swells, showing a long trumpet shape, and the water is dyed yellow. Sweet breath, bitter taste. It is best to be moist and shiny, with less red and yellow silk.

2. Dry safflower is a kind of curved filament, dark reddish brown and partly yellowish brown. Relaxed, dull and greasy. The rest are wet safflower. The above medicinal materials are produced in Spain, Greece and the Soviet Union.