Carthamus, Safflower, Hong Hua Carthamus Flos, Safflower, Hong Hua 红花 Bastard or Wild Saffron; Cnicus, Crocus Saracenicus, CartamusKusumbha, Vahinshikha (Ayurveda)Qurtum, Asfar (Unani)Chendurakam (Siddha)Gur Gum གུར་གུམ་ (also used for Saffron)Rtsa Gur Gum རྩ་གུར་གུམ་ (Carthamus, Tibet)Hong Hua (TCM) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Above: SafflowerLeft: dried whole Safflower flower (Adam, 2016, 2018) Botanical name: Carthamus tinctorius Parts used: FlowerSeed also Safflower Seed Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent“Hot in the first and dry in the second degree” (Avicenna) Classifications: 2D ATTENUATERS OF CONGEALED BLOOD2L. EMOLLIENTTCM:K. Move the Blood Uses: Moves the Blood, Promotes Menstruation, Eases Pain:Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea with clotting or dark blooddelayed or obstructed MenstruationEndometriosis, Fibroids, Uterine Tumors Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis: Blood stasis, Trauma, HematomaChest Pain, sharp stabbing pain from Blood stasis‘it functions on the Heart and nourishes it’. (Ben Cao Gang Mu)Hardness, Tumors (movable and static), Fibroids; adjunct in Cancerpromotes eruption of Measles, Scarlet Fever, Chickenpox, Small Pox etc. (not used once full eruption has occurred)smaller doses can be used for Bleeding due to excess Heat or Blood obstruction‘it dredges the channels’. (Li Shi Zhen)accepted substitute for Saffron Benefits the Liver: One of the Six Excellent Medicines of Tibetan Medicinein Tibetan Medicine, Safflower (or Saffron) is…

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