Midazolam is ineffective for pain and has no analgesic effect during conscious sedation. The drug is a primary choice for conscious sedation because midazolam causes patients to have no recollection of the medical procedure.
Saffron is a plant. The dried stigmas (thread-like parts of the flower) are used to make saffron spice. It can take 75,000 saffron blossoms to produce a single pound of saffron spice. Saffron is largely cultivated and harvested by hand. Due to the amount of labor involved in harvesting, saffron is considered one of the world's most expensive spices. The stigmas are also used to make medicine. Saffron is used for asthma, cough, whooping cough (pertussis), and to loosen phlegm (as an expectorant).
Saffron is not only used as a food flavoring and colorant, but as a dye for clothing, especially in developing countries. It is so intensely colorful that one grain of powdered saffron imparts a distinctly yellow tint that can dye 10 gallons of water. Saffron-robed priests are a common sight in India and saffron is the choice color of the Hindu nationalist parties in India.