Yellow Saffron
Botanical Name: Carthamus tinctorius
Common Names and Synonyms: Saflower, American Saffron, Dyer's
Saffron, Fake Saffron, Flores Carthami, Bastard Saffron
Background: Yellow (American) saffron is not related to the expensive
culinary (Spanish) saffron. American Saffron is the Saflower.
Today this plant is grown mostly because for its high percentage of polyunsaturated
oil, which tends to lower blood cholesterol. The annual plant grows
almost 3 feet tall and blooms during June or July. A single smooth
upright stem having pointed, shiny, leaves bears a compact flower.
The flower head is 1 to 1 ½ inches across, and looks similar to
a thistle. The flower heads turn dark yellow to deep red in August.
The heads produce an intense yellow or red substance which is used for
dye. In the past the dye was used for cosmetic rouge, to dye mummy
wrappings, color silks and other textiles. The seeds produce oil
which is popularly used in cooking. The oil is also used in
paints and varnishes. Medicinally, the flowers of yellow saffron
have a laxative and diaphoretic action used to treat measles, fever, and
erruptic skin disorders.
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Yellow Saffron in the Cayce Readings
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Edgar Cayce recommended yellow (American) saffron for gastro-intestinal
healing. Yellow saffron was usually prescribed as a tea, although
several readings included it in complex formulas to heal the digestive
system or produce a laxative effect. Yellow saffron was consistently
prescribed for skin conditions such as psoriasis to heal the walls of the
small intestine ("leaky gut syndrome) which the readings often cited as
the source of the problem.
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When used as a tea, yellow saffron was often used in conjunction with other
substances, most often slippery elm bark water (108 readings), olive oil
(85 readings) and chamomile tea (17 readings).
Cayce Quotes on Yellow Saffron
4264-1
... the action of the saffron to the body is to go through the action
of the juices of the stomach, the proper incentive to carry on throughout
the system the stimulating force needed to give rejuvenated life to this
portion of the stomach when we are rebuilding proper channels through these,
then the expressions coming to the nerve force and to all the rest of the
body become through the proper channels.
3899-3
The active principle of the medicinal qualities
are these: with the senna we give the active principle to the pancrean
juices. With the rhubarb and licorice we add the active principle
to the mucous membrane itself in the upper intestines, giving off more
of the properties used as a lining to the intestinal tract. While
the saffron is a sedative and a food for all of the organs throughout.
3972-1
... the action of the yellow saffron is to act on the duodenum and
the functioning of the small intestines ...
2242-1
So let all of the water that is taken into the system carry both the
properties of elm and the weak solution of yellow saffron, for its effect
will assist the kidneys and the organs of the pelvis that produce some
irritation to the system.
4653-1
Let all of the water as taken in the system carry
small quantities of elm and yellow saffron. This is to remove inflammation
in the system internally. That is, to the glass of water add small
pinch of the ground elm bark and small pinch of the powdered yellow saffron.
Do that, we will bring relief for this body.
232-2
As to the medicinal properties for this system,
we would take none save those that act as a laxative to the system, and
when this is taken this would be and would meet the necessary needs for
this body:
Cascara Sagrada..............2 grains,
Licorice Compound............1 grain,
Yellow Saffron...............2 grains.
149-1
Take into the system a mild tea, as is prepared
from Yellow Saffron. This will be healing and relaxing in a sedative manner
to the intestinal tract all the way through.
4256-1
Then there should be taken REGULARLY Yellow Saffron
Tea. The combination of these, as we see, is to soothe and to lessen
this irritation as is kept up through the intestine and through the stomach.
2036-2
Those of senna, yellow saffron, and Dover's powders,
sufficient to act on liver and the intestinal system, especially the colon.
3717-2
Now, as to occasionally - and what these properties
mean for the system: In taking the elm, this in its active principle
for THIS system adds to the alkaline reaction from the salivary glands
to action of the cardiac portion of stomach. The Yellow Saffron reduces
the hydro-chloric reaction in stomach proper. The lithia adds to
the efficiency of the active forces necessary through the lower hepatic
circulation, clarifying and relieving kidneys from the distresses as would
be caused by and under active principle. Now the added force in the
Magnesia is to sweeten the condition in the duodenum and in the jejunum
in its reaction in the system, or so that in the action of foods in system
will bring the nearer normal assimilation and the eliminations for the
body.
5545-1
Just before the MEALS are taken, that of a MILD
tea of Saffron should be able to coat the whole of the stomach proper.
This will aid digestion.
348-12
(Q) Will saffron tea be helpful?
(A) Helpful, as has been given, in keeping an equilibrium between
the acid forces of the body.
5619-1
In that of the saffron, this would be made in a
very mild tea, but the effects of this are that, with the muco-membrane
of the stomach, of the duodenum, of that portion of the digestive forces
in system, will prevent that recurrent condition of acidity, and
the too much of the alkalin - for one is as bad or as SEVERE on the ulcerated
or lacerated conditions, as occur from time to time. Hence the necessity
that these be in the water as is taken.
287-10
But if we will add TO the system those properties
that are somewhat soporific in their nature, and that will work with not
only the direct disorder itself but which reacts through the system, or
portion of system so disturbed directly, these will be helpful - as was
used before, and as given. That of yellow Saffron tea, taken two,
three, four times a day - teaspoonful, see? and olive oil. The action
of these upon this portion of the system is to make for the activity of
the gastric juices as are set in motion by the taking into the system ANY
property, whether that of just the saliva of spittle or of water, or of
food, to make that in the portion of the system react that will meet the
needs, or supply the needs, of FITTING that so ENTERING the stomach to
the needs of the body! See? Alright! With the taking
of the oil, that is as food to the lining and to the muscular forces of
the whole of the intestinal system, and that of the Saffron - which is
soporific in its reaction to the activity OF the system, then these combined
- though, of course not taken together, for the oil will be taken two times
each day, while the Saffron will be taken three or four times a day - teaspoonful;
olive oil, teaspoonful morning and evening.
4510-1
The Saffron will assimilate and coordinate with
the gastric juices of the DIGESTIVE system, in such a way and manner as
to eliminate that character of poisons that saps the vitality of the muco-membranes
OF the digestive and intestinal system.
437-7
And two, three, four times a day - but not at the
same time with the Oil - take Pure Yellow Saffron Tea. The activity
of these properties upon the gastrointestinal system will be to create
an effluvium in the very activity of the mucus membranes through the flow
of the lymph to aid in not only healing but in giving texture and strength
especially to those portions of the alimentary canal that are of the disturbing
nature. Make a Saffron Tea, you see. The proportions would
be about a teaspoonful of the Yellow Saffron (American Saffron, not necessarily
Spanish) to six ounces of water; this a heaping teaspoonful. Let
this steep. It is necessary that this be kept cool. And take about
an ounce of it, or a tablespoonful of it, two to three times a day.
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