ACUPUNTURA Y MASAJE TERAPÉUTICO

Hong Hua - Safflower (Flos Carthami)

Properties: Warm, Acrid. Channels: Heart, Liver.

Action and indication: Unblocks menstruation, abdominal pain, masses, difficult deLivery.   (Tao Hong Si Wu Tang, Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang)      

Stops pain from trauma.  (Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang)    

Topical for bedsores.

Contraindicated: pregnancy.

Dose: 3-9 g;  Small doses 0.9-1.5g harmonizes blood, large 3-9g dispels blood stasis.  Add at end of decoction.