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Safflower make a nice tea when mixed with some cassia, citrus peel, and Chinese black tea.

Safflower tea has traditionally been used as a diaphoretic and emmenagogue.

Safflower is also called 'Dyer's Saffron.' It can be added to soap to color it yellow to deep orange, and it is nice for coloring rice, bread or cheese, since it adds color without altering the taste.

Since ancient times, orange pigments for coloring decorative straw, paper and cloth have been obtained from safflower.

Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'The flowers are the part used, their action is laxative and diaphoretic. In domestic practice these flowers are used in children's and infants' complaints - measles, fevers, and eruptive skin eomplaints. An infusion is made of ½ oz. of the flowers to a pint of boiling water taken warm to produce diaphorasis.'

King's 1898 Dispensatory: 'Dyer's saffron, when the warm infusion is used, is said to restore the menstrual discharge which has been recently suppressed by cold; also when taken largely, to produce an action on the bowels.'

'The warm infusion is often employed as a diaphoretic in domestic practice among children and infants in measles, scarlet fever, and other eruptive maladies. It may be given tolerably freely.'

'The infusion may be made by infusing 1 or 2 drachms of the flowers in ½ pint of boiling water. The seeds are white and angular, and have been much used as a purgative and emmenagogue. They yield an oil by expression, which has been used as a local application in rheumatic and paralytic affections; also for bad ulcers.'