【Medicinal Recipe Name】
Saffron Seafood Soup
【Ingredients】
A small amount of onion and celery, 1/4 piece of white fish, a pinch of saffron, a splash of white wine, a dried scallop, 100g shrimp, 1500g fish fillet, a pinch of salt and MSG, a suitable amount of white broth
【Benefits】
Saffron seafood soup has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and improving meridian flow.
【Usage】
Consume once every other day, eat the vegetables and drink the soup as a side dish.
【Cooking Process】
1. Chop the onion, celery, dried scallop, shrimp, and fish fillet into small pieces and set aside.
2. Stir-fry the above ingredients with a little white fish.
3. Place the stir-fried ingredients in the white broth and add a splash of white wine, saffron, salt, and MSG. Bring to a boil.
4. Pour the boiled broth into a soup bowl and serve.
【Suitable for】
Saffron seafood soup is suitable for people with hypertension and blood stasis.
【Effects of Saffron】
1. Cardiac inhibition:
A small dose of saffron decoction can mildly stimulate the isolated frog heart and in vivo rabbit heart, causing stronger and larger heartbeats. However, a large dose has an inhibitory effect on the heart, slowing down the heart rate, weakening myocardial contraction, and reducing cardiac output.
2. Experimental studies on coronary blood flow:
Saffron water extract and saffron water-soluble mixture (saffron yellow pigment) have the ability to increase coronary blood flow and myocardial nutritional blood flow. However, the dilating effect of saffron ethanol extract on coronary arteries and the increase in coronary blood flow are not significant or have no effect.
3. Experimental studies on myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction:
In animal models of experimental myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction in rabbits, rats, and dogs, saffron and its preparations have varying degrees of antagonistic effects. Saffron provides significant protection against acute myocardial ischemia caused by posterior pituitary hormones in rats or rabbits. It reduces the severity and extent of acute myocardial ischemia caused by repeated brief blockade of coronary blood flow in anesthetized dogs, slows down the heart rate, and protects the edges of the acute myocardial infarction area, thus reducing the infarction area and lowering the magnitude of ST segment elevation in the marginal zone electrocardiogram, thereby improving the supply and demand of myocardial oxygen in ischemic myocardium.
4. Vascular effects of saffron:
When the blood vessels of guinea pigs or rabbit ears, which have increased tension due to the infusion of a trace amount of adrenaline or noradrenaline solution, are contracted to maintain a certain vascular tension, saffron can cause vasodilation. The vasodilating effect of saffron becomes more pronounced with increasing dosage. However, saffron can cause the contraction of normal isolated blood vessels of frogs and rabbits. This indicates that the vasodilating effect of saffron is related to the functional state of blood vessels and the dosage of the drug. Its mechanism of action is mainly by directly or partially antagonizing alpha-adrenergic receptors, causing vasodilation, and also has a weak direct vasoconstrictive effect.
5. Hypotensive effect:
Saffron decoction, saffron yellow pigment, and other preparations have varying degrees of rapid hypotensive effects on anesthetized cats or dogs, with an average blood pressure drop of about 20 mmHg lasting for about 30 minutes before recovery.
