Saffron anticancer effects and protect the heart
Mehdi Ebrahimi, a member of the Medicinal Herbs Research Center of the Southern Khorasan University Jihad, said saffron is an important herbal medicine that belongs to the lily family and its use in traditional medicine dates back to ancient times.
He added: Iran has a cultivated area of about 105 thousand 269 hectares and produces 336 tons of saffron per year as the largest saffron producer in the world, and South Khorasan, while earning the second rank of saffron production in the country, produces the best saffron in the world.
A member of the Medicinal Herbs Research Center of the South Khorasan University Jihad continued: Natural products, including saffron, are also considered as the main source of pharmacological effective drugs and are still used as a stable source in the production of new drugs.
Ebrahimi states that the use of saffron to achieve therapeutic goals dates back to the Roman era and ancient Greece, said saffron used to treat abdominal problems, bloating, coughing, colic, insomnia and heart disease, as a sedative and sedative medicine. Is.
He added that Saffron has been widely used to improve liver, kidney, bladder, and cholera treatment, by stating that saffron facilitates digestion and its volatile oils in the treatment of insomnia.
The therapeutic benefits of saffron have attracted researchers all over the world, and only a few decades ago, several molecules have been isolated from this plant, which is of great importance for the drug, the member of the Medicines Plant Research Center of the South Khorasan University Jihad.
Ebrahimi states that traditional herbal use of this plant is also confirmed by scientific studies. According to clinical studies on saffron, this aromatic spice has various biological activities including anticancer, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory and Heart protector.
Referring to the efforts made by researchers of the Medicines Plant Research Center of the Southern Khorasan University Jihad in the field of improving performance and quality, as well as the further introduction of the red gold of South Khorasan, he recalled: The book “Saffron Apocarotonoid”, which in recent months was conducted by the University Jihad of South Khorasan It is an attempt to introduce biosynthesis pathways, which are compounds that lead to the effects of medicinal and medicinal treatment of saffron.
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