Study on diuretic activity of saffron (stigma of Crocus sativus L.) Aqueous extract in rat

• Main Authors: Nabi Shariatifar (Author), Shahram Shoeibi (Author), Moslem Jaferi Sani (Author), Amir Hossein Jamshidi (Author), Ali Zarei (Author), Abbas Mehdizade (Author), Manouchehr Dadgarnejad (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world and consists of the dried stigmas of Crocus sativus L. It is used as food coloring and flavoring in food industry and traditional cooking and also in folk medicine as antispasmodic, carminative, stomachic, expectorant, aphrodisiac and cardiotonic. The...