Saffron flower is a beautiful and beautiful flowers that have a blue color. This saffron flower has the scientific name of Crocus sativus. This saffron flower comes from the Southwest Asia region (middle east). This saffron flower function is used as a spice for cooking and natural coloring ingredients. Saffron flower has a distinctive flavor that is slightly bitter and smells nice. Extract from this flower is very expensive because of its difficult pengelolahannya and also an annual crop.
The Saffron flower, also known as Kuma-kuma is the name for the spices of Crocus sativus (flower girlfriend), from the clan of the Iridaceae family's crocus. This plant has three stigma heads (stigmas) which are distal to the leaves of the fruit. While the part of the pistil stalk, which connects the stigma with the deepest part of the flower.
Saffron flowers also contain chemical, usefulness and benefits:
Chemical Content of Saffron Flower
Saffron flowers contain zeaxanthin, lycopene, and various α-, β-carotene, vitamin A, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin C, Crocin and Safranal. This saffron flower also contains some important minerals that the body needs are copper, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, selenium, zinc, and magnesium.
Benefits and Efficacy of Saffron Flower
- Saffron flowers for beauty (to smooth the skin)
- Anti cancer
- Blowing the blood
- Heals wounds
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- As a cough medicine
- Reduce blood pressure and cholesterol
- Treating anemia
- Reduce the risk of heart attack
- Colic medicine
- Anti-carcinogenic
- Anti-mutagenic
- Overcome depression and stress
- Increase sexual arousal
- Scabies treatment
- Improve the immune system in the body
- Antioxidants
- Saffron flowers for mothers contain as a natural sedative
- Benefits of saffron flowers for the face can be used to remove acne
Vital Records
Consume this flower should be appropriate dosage and not excessive to maintain our body health.