Compared with all kinds of unhealthy drinks, such as sweet drinks and milk drinks, the water brewed with corn stigma is a healthier drink and tastes more fragrant. I suggest you drink it. Increasing drinking water is a good thing to promote metabolism, prevent constipation and promote defecation.
Corn silk helps to lower blood pressure. If bile is insufficient, some fat and cholesterol will be completely decomposed, then enter the liver and then enter our blood. It is easy to cause hypertension, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis and heart disease. Corn silk can help bile secretion, promote bile excretion, and reduce organic matter and impurities, viscosity, specific gravity and bilirubin content in bile. Therefore, preventing diseases such as hypertension is a sharp weapon for the daily health of middle-aged and elderly people.
Diuretic and detumescent corn must be sweet, light and flat, which has the function of dredging, belonging to the bladder meridian, and the role of diuresis and detumescence is particularly prominent. Corn silk polysaccharide has obvious diuretic effect, and corn silk extract has inhibitory effect on calcium oxalate crystallization in urine. Corn beard decoction has a certain effect on urinary calculi, and has a good effect on reducing urine protein and serum creatinine and preventing recurrence.
Especially in seasonal climate, the human body is heavy in moisture, the metabolic rate of water and liquid decreases, or water and liquid cannot be discharged due to electrolyte imbalance, which is easy to cause edema of head, face and limbs. Corn must have a good effect of eliminating dampness and reducing swelling. Soaking corn in water can also help people with head and face edema to effectively reduce swelling in the morning.
The chemical components of laxative corn stigma mainly include crude protein, crude fiber, vitamins, minerals, polysaccharides and crude fat, as well as rich bioactive substances, such as organic acids, volatile oils, flavonoids and their glycosides, sterols and so on.
Corn silk is rich in dietary fiber. Eating directly or drinking with water can play a role in relaxing bowels, but people with poor gastrointestinal function had better drink less.
Conclusion Stigma Maydis is mild in medicinal properties and has good effects of promoting diuresis, eliminating dampness and expelling turbidity, but its function of regulating viscera is relatively poor. It is necessary to find out the reason of water-wet stagnation. Treating symptoms is the thinking of treating diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is not possible to determine whether it is suitable for corn stigma by the names of gout, hyperglycemia and other diseases. No matter what kind of disease, you can only consider using it. Those with weak viscera and insufficient body fluid should not eat this product excessively for a long time.