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introduction | safflower oil is a red-brown clear liquid with specific qi, spicy taste, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, expelling wind, relaxing muscles and relieving pain. Saffold oil is mainly derived from Singapore. Its main components are white oil, white camphor oil, cinnamon leaf oil, cinnamaldehyde, turpentine, wintergreen oil, etc. Some brands have sanguis and unknown ingredients. Turpentine and draconis have reported allergic reactions, and cinnamaldehyde is also one of the known allergens. In addition, it also has a certain effect on heart and abdomen pain, numbness of limbs, rheumatic bone pain, back pain, sprain and bruise, hot fire burns, mosquito and bee bites, vicious yin gangrene and other diseases. |
main ingredients | the main ingredients of safflower oil are: linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, vitamin e, stearic acid, etc. |
Source | Safflower oil is actually mostly derived from the popular plant essential oil preparations in South Asia. It is said to be native to Singapore. The earliest safflower oil contains safflower, which can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis to treat bruises. Later, in the process of gradual evolution, some products abandoned safflower, but still retained the name "safflower oil. There are many preparations of this plant essential oil in Singapore. In addition to safflower oil, there are also wind-driving oil, balm oil, seal oil, fist oil, etc. |
efficacy and action | safflower oil has the effects of promoting blood circulation and dispelling wind, relaxing muscles and relieving pain. It has a good effect on rheumatic bone pain, bruises, exogenous headache and skin itching. |
medicinal value | in 1977, the experimental drug department of the institute of medical education and science in Chandigarh, India, fed safflower seed oil as food, basic food and low-fat food for 5 months respectively. the serum and aortic fat of the three groups of animals were significantly reduced, but the effect was most obvious when fed with safflower seed oil. In 1982, the Institute of Agricultural Sciences and the Institute of Drug Inspection in Zhangye, Gansu Province, China conducted a test on the effect of safflower seed oil on the serum lipid and daily lipoprotein content of rabbits. The results showed that safflower seed oil could significantly reduce the levels of total lipid, cholesterol triglyceride and p lipoprotein in serum of experimental hyperlipidemia rabbits and normal rabbits, but had no effect on phospholipids. Professor Shinjiro Suzuki, Minister of Nutrition and Physiology of Japan's National Institute of Nutrition, reported in the article "Arteriosclerosis and Mixed Rice Oil" published in the journal "Oil and Health" that he had done experiments in the 1960s and gave three people to eat safflower seed oil for a week. Their blood cholesterol decreased significantly. They later conducted many human tests, with the number of people reaching 10-20, and the results were still the same. |
application field | safflower oil is mainly used for emergency relief, anti-inflammatory and hemostasis. It can treat heartache, rheumatic bone pain, bruises, sprains, knife wounds, burns, fire injuries, mosquito bites, etc. |
extraction process | a safflower oil extraction method, the method includes: step 1: washing safflower seeds with water, and then soaking in PBS buffer; Step 2: performing colloid grinding and grinding treatment on the soaked seeds and PBS buffer solution; Step 3: centrifuging the treated solution obtained in step 2, then add NaCl solution, let stand at room temperature for 2-8h, to obtain the layered oil body fluid; Step 4: extract the upper oil body fluid obtained in step 3, then add the PBS emulsifier, stir and mix well, place it at room temperature for 2-4h, take the upper oil body, and then centrifuge to obtain safflower oil body. |
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