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红花（safflower） [safflower effect]: Safflower (Chinese Materia Medica map) [synonym] red and blue (Golden Chamber), (four red thorn state Chinese traditional medicine Zhi), safflower (Shaanxi zhongyaozhi). [source] the flowers of Safflower in compositae. [plant] red, yellow and blue (also known as: natural history (Cui Bao), red and blue ancient note), clover (Lu crags Materia Medica), safflower (food Materia Medica relief). Herbs annual, 30~90 cm tall, glabrous, glabrous. Stem erect, base woody, upper part more branched. Ye Husheng, a hard, nearly sessile and clasping; ovate or ovate lanceolate, long 3.5, 9 cm wide, 1 cm to 3.5 cm, base attenuate, apex acute, margin with barbed teeth; the upper leaves became smaller, as bractlike, around the flower heads. Inflorescence, apical, involucral bracts 2 to 3 columns, the outside column was leaflike, lanceolate, margin with acupuncture; in the oval edge without thorns and white membranous; flat flower receptacle; most, usually bisexual, orange red, apex 5 - lobed, lobes linear; stamens 5, anthers aggregated; pistil 1. Style slender, out of the anther tube outside, stigma 2 - lobed, lobes short, tongue. Achenes elliptic or obovate, ca. 5 mm, base slightly oblique, white, with 4 ribs. Florescence 6~7 months. Fruit period 8~9 months. There are many kinds of cultivation in all parts of the country. This plant (safflower seedling seedling), fruit (safflower) also for medicinal, the details of the special article. [collection] from 5 to June when the petals from yellow to red when picking guanzhuanghua, drying, dry or drying. [Medicine] dry flower, ca. 1.5 cm, orange red, flower tube narrow, apex 5 - lobed, lobes narrowly linear, 5 to 7 mm long, 5 stamens, anthers yellow, united into a tube is higher than outside the central lobe, a stigma exposed. With special aroma, slightly bitter taste. In order to spend long, bright red color, soft texture is preferred. Mainly producing Henan, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places. [chemical co