Sun protective effect of saffron
Saffron has shown an ability to absorb ultraviolet radiation in laboratory formulations, but saffron threads, homemade creams and saffron water are not tested sunscreens. The ... Read More...
Saffron and Hypotension: What the Original Rat Study Means
Saffron has produced a hypotensive effect in laboratory animals, but the original experiment did not show that saffron is a treatment for low or high ... Read More...
Saffron During Pregnancy: Food Use, Supplements and Safety
Saffron during pregnancy needs more caution than saffron used in an ordinary recipe. Concentrated extracts, supplements and deliberately large amounts should not be used without ... Read More...
Iranian Saffron and Alzheimer Disease: What Clinical Trials Found
Iranian researchers have conducted several clinical trials of saffron extract in people with Alzheimer disease. The findings are interesting, but they do not show that ... Read More...
Saffron and muscle soreness
Saffron has been tested in a small trial of delayed-onset muscle soreness after exercise, but the evidence is not strong enough to call it an ... Read More...
Saffron and Liver Cancer: What Research Actually Shows
Saffron and liver cancer are being studied together, but the evidence does not show that eating saffron prevents liver cancer or that a saffron supplement ... Read More...
Will Saffron Replace Medicines? What the Evidence Says
Saffron will not soon replace medicines. It contains compounds worth studying, and clinical trials have reported possible benefits for a few specific outcomes. That is ... Read More...
Poushali saffron and respiratory health
Poushali saffron is a commercial thread grade, not a special medicinal variety. Early research has examined saffron and its compounds in asthma and airway-inflammation models, ... Read More...
Timely irrigation, organic saffron
Timely irrigation, organic saffron begins with a simple observation: saffron uses modest amounts of water compared with many crops, yet the timing of that water ... Read More...
Saffron and cancer: research overview
Saffron and cancer research is largely preclinical: extracts and compounds such as crocin, crocetin and safranal have produced interesting effects in cancer cells and animal ... Read More...