Medicinal Properties of Saffron Extract

Many plants have medicinal properties. In the ancient years, these herbal plants have been the sole medications of our ancestors. Now, despite the many manufactured medications, a growing awareness about the benefits of natural medications among many people has led them to rediscover the health benefits of using traditional medicine – including the use of saffron. Saffron extract has many medicinal benefits as outlined below.

Antispasmodic

Saffron has antispasmodic properties. This property allows the saffron to provide relief to the patient by relaxing the spasms that the patient feels. These spasms commonly occur in the muscles, but they can also be felt in the stomach and intestines as well. Taking saffron extract helps to alleviate the muscle spasms that the patient feels.

Diaphoretic

The diaphoretic properties of saffron induce sweating in the patient. This is most helpful in cases where the patient is suffering from fever. Because of saffron’s diaphoretic effects, the patient will experience faster sweating which will improve surface circulation. The sweat also carries out the toxins that accumulated in the body, thus helping our body to recover faster from the fever.

Diuretic

Diuretic is a property of saffron that makes a person urinate thus helping in the removal of excess water from the body. Saffron as a diuretic is helpful to people who have or are suffering from high blood pressure. They are also helpful to people who have oedema (a condition where there is too much water in the body tissues) which is a result of the heart failing to pump blood efficiently throughout a person’s body.

Laxative

Laxatives are those that help a person to have easier elimination of bodily wastes.  Thus, this property of saffron is most helpful in cases where a person is constipated. There are many forms of laxatives being sold in the market, but  is better because they are natural and tend to have lesser side effects as compared to chemically produced ones.  If you are suffering from irregular bowel movement, then taking saffron extracts may help to restore the normal bowel movement of your body.

Aphrodisiac

For those who seem to have lost all interest in sexual intercourse, then saffron extracts may just be able to help you out. See, saffron are known to have aphrodisiac properties that can help you last longer in bed. In addition, using saffron and any other herbal medicine for aphrodisiac is found to be better than popping pills and drugs, since they are known to work better and have lesser negative effects.

There are many other medicinal properties of saffron, and they can be obtained by either taking saffron in its raw form or better yet as a saffron extract. Of course, the effects of saffron do not manifest overnight. Rather, continuous and loyal use of saffron will yield these wonderful effects in days of use.