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SAFFRON AND ITS APPLICATION IN MEDICINE
Fayzullayev Jahongir Shavkat O‘G‘Li , 3rd Year Student Of The Faculty Of Industrial Pharmacy, Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute, UzbekistanAbstract
This article describes the saffron plant and its medicinal properties, chemical properties, application in medicine and examples from experiments conducted by scientists on it.
Keywords
Saffron, crocin, crocetin esters, safranal, picrocrocin, nutraceutical
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