Honghwa
Safflower · Carthami Flos
한글 홍화 · Pinyin Hong Hua
紅花
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Acrid · warm
- Channels entered
- Heart, Liver
- Actions
- Invigorates Blood, dispels stasis, unblocks menstruation, stops stasis pain
- Typical dose
- 3–9 g
- Caution
- Avoid in pregnancy
Appears in 19 formulas 處方
- Drive Out Stasis from the Mansion of Blood Decoction血府逐瘀湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Angelica Tails Powder當歸鬚散 3.2 g · Assistant 佐
- Dispel Wind and Invigorate Blood Decoction疏風活血湯 1.2 g · Assistant 佐
- Drive Out Stasis from a Painful Body Decoction身痛逐瘀湯 12 g · Chief 君
- One Formula for Head Sores治頭瘡一方 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Tonify the Yang to Restore Five-Tenths Decoction補陽還五湯 4 g · Assistant 佐
- Four Substances Decoction with Peach Kernel and Safflower桃紅四物湯 3 g · Deputy 臣
- Harmonize the Blood and Boost the Qi Decoction和血益氣湯 0.4 g · Assistant 佐
- Engender Fluids Sweet Dew Decoction生津甘露湯 0.4 g · Assistant 佐
- Clear the Spirit and Supplement the Qi Decoction淸神補氣湯 0.4 g · Assistant 佐
- Aucklandia Transform Stagnation Decoction木香化滯湯 0.4 g · Assistant 佐
- Clear Heat and Regulate the Blood Decoction淸熱調血湯 3 g · Assistant 佐
- Angelica and Curcuma Break the Concretion Decoction歸朮破癥湯 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Free the Menses Pill通經丸 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Free the Menses Four Substances Decoction通經四物湯 1.2 g · Assistant 佐
- Bupleurum Regulate the Cycle Decoction柴胡調經湯 0.8 g · Assistant 佐
- Conduct the Menses Pill導經丸 4 g · Assistant 佐
- Regulate the Cycle and Nourish the Blood Pill調經養血元 40 g · Assistant 佐
- Harmonize the Pain Decoction和痛湯 2 g · Assistant 佐