Health Benefits of Saffron

Here at Exir Saffron, we offer top quality pure saffron products filled with vitamins, nutrients, and antioxidants - with a large range of documented Health and vitality boosters.

In fact, recent studies show that saffron may play a valuable role in delaying mental decline in cases of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dating back perhaps as far as 4,000 years. The spice shows up in the early medicinal texts of India and the Middle-East, where it has long been employed, and has as many as 90 medicinal uses, including the treatment of arthritis, asthma, coughs, colds, liver disorders, poor eyesight and skin problems. 

Two studies, one published in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the other published in the journal Psychopharmacology, show that saffron can help sufferers of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease to maintain better overall mental function.
In both studies, patients were given 30 mg daily of saffron. In one study, the patients were monitored for 16 weeks, and in the other study they were monitored for 22 weeks.

Saffron is rich in Antioxidant compounds, including zeaxanthin, which is beneficial to the eyes, and lycopene, which is known to protect the prostate gland. The spice contains compounds that protect nerves, and is rich in gallic acid, a potent compound that is antioxidant and anti inflammatory, and demonstrates liver-protective, cancer-inhibiting and immune-supporting activity. Saffron also contains pyrogallal, another protective compound that has also been used industrially for a long time to develop photographic film. Needless to say, there are many uses of compounds from plants.

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