Saffron tea helps to relieve the symptoms of menstruation in women
Check Tehran University researchers show that Saffron tea may help to relieve symptoms before menstruation in women .
Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world , other than the traditionally used for cooking purposes, abdominal pain, digestive problems and even depression have been consumed .
Recent clinical trials have shown that Saffron tea really helps to treat mild depression .
Believed to cause premenstrual symptoms , changes in serotonin activity and saffron experts on the chemical serotonin in the brain is affected.
That’s why a team of Iranian researchers decided about the possibility of reducing the effects of premenstrual investigate the effect of Saffron tea .
Reuters reported from New York, Dr. M.. Agha and colleagues at Tehran University of Medical Sciences 50 randomly selected women were asked to eat two capsules a day during the menstrual cycle .
The subjects were divided into two groups: the first group was given capsules containing saffron and placebo groups , women between the age to 20 45 years , at least six months experience premenstrual symptoms such as cramps , puffiness , were irritability and fatigue .
At the end of the treatment period , three quarters of women who had been Saffron tea capsules reported that at least 50 percent decreased their PMS symptoms , but among women who received placebo were given to them , just 8 percent reduction complications reported.
The researchers report in the medical journal BJOP printed.
According to the researchers , their findings suggest that saffron may affect serotonin activity affect not only depressive symptoms but also relieve symptoms of PMS .
However , they have stressed that more long-term studies are necessary to confirm these findings .
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