What are the effects and functions of saffron for men?

Saffron is a relatively common Chinese medicine. It is generally used to treat women's poor blood circulation or lochia caused by miscarriage. It is effective in these aspects. In fact, saffron can also be eaten directly, which is good for the body. So, what are the effects and functions of saffron for men? Let's take a look at the doctor's introduction to this issue.

1. Effects on liver and gallbladder

Saffron has a choleretic effect, and crocin can lower cholesterol and increase fat metabolism. It can be used in combination with traditional Chinese medicines such as hawthorn, cassia seed, and Alisma orientalis for the treatment of fatty liver. Saffron improves microcirculation, promotes the secretion and excretion of bile, thereby reducing abnormally elevated globulin and total bilirubin, and can be used to treat cirrhosis after chronic viral hepatitis. Crocetin has a chemopreventive effect on early acute liver damage caused by toxic substances and has the potential to be used in the treatment of chronic cholecystitis.

2. Effects on the circulatory system

Saffron extract has a stimulating effect on breathing. Under conditions of hypoxia at normal pressure, it can enhance the oxygen metabolism function in cells, improve the heart's tolerance to hypoxia, and to a certain extent reduce the damage to myocardial cells caused by strenuous exercise, thus having a certain protective effect on the heart.

3. Immunomodulatory effect

In clinical practice, saffron is used to treat a variety of chronic diseases in the human body. Through its effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, it enhances the body's endurance and lymphocyte proliferation response, thereby improving the body's cellular immunity and humoral immunity, and plays a role in adjusting the body's qi and balancing the body's yin and yang.

4. Effects on the blood system

Saffron hot water extract has a significant anticoagulant effect. It can prolong plasma prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), inhibit ADP and collagen-induced platelet aggregation, and accelerate the fibrinolytic effect of urokinase and plasmin. The synthetic substrate decomposition method was used to study the concentration-dependent inhibition of saffron extract on the decomposition of the cyan-colored synthetic substrate (PS-944) caused by plasmin, with an IC50 of 24.5 mg/ml, and the inhibition was non-competitive inhibition.

Well, after reading the above introduction, I believe you already know the effects and functions of saffron for men. If you have these needs, you can eat some saffron appropriately, but as the saying goes, "All medicines are poisonous", so you cannot eat it casually, and the method and dosage must strictly follow the doctor's instructions.