In traditional Chinese medicine, corn beard, also known as "Gracilaria lemaneiformis", has a flat nature and is widely used in daily life. Boil the corn with whiskers in a pot. After cooking, pour out the soup, which is "asparagus tea". "Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea" is economical and can be used as health tea for the whole family.
For women, it can be used for habitual abortion, pregnancy swelling, breast obstruction and other diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that corn stigma, sweet in taste and flat in nature, can induce diuresis, reduce swelling, clear away heat, calm the liver and promote gallbladder function, and can also be used to treat nephritis, edema, hepatitis, hypertension, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, sinusitis and mastitis. Corn silk has diuretic effect on people and can increase chloride excretion. Its diuretic effect is outside the kidney, so it has certain curative effect on edema caused by various reasons. Although it can be used for nephritis or nephrotic syndrome, its effect is not very strong.
Corn silk can accelerate the process of blood coagulation, increase the number of platelets and resist hemolysis, so it can be used as a hemostatic and diuretic for bladder and urinary calculi, and can also be used for acute hemolytic anemia. Because it has anti-allergic effect, it can also be used to treat urticaria and asthma. The detoxification function of corn stigma can be used to treat mastitis. In addition, corn silk also has an appetizing effect.
13 medical use of corn silk
1, for treating hypertension and dizziness.
Stigma Maydis 50g, Flos Chrysanthemi 10g, decocted in water. This is a daily dose 1, which is taken orally twice in the morning and evening.
2. Treatment of nephrotic syndrome
60 grams of dried corn beard is used each time, washed and decocted. Twice a day in the morning and evening. At the same time, take potassium chloride 1g three times a day. Generally, diuresis began after taking medicine for 3 days, while urinary protein and non-protein nitrogen decreased to varying degrees, plasma protein increased in a few cases, and phenol red test and blood pressure turned normal in some cases.
3. Treat gingival bleeding
50g of stigma Maydis is put into a thermos, brewed with boiling water, covered with 10 minutes or more, and taken in batches within 1 day, with 1 dose per day, with 7 days as 1 course of treatment.
Step 4 treat dizziness
Stigma Maydis 50g, decocted in place of tea, daily 1 dose, three times in the morning, noon and evening.
5, cure cough
Stigma Maydis 30g, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 9g, decocted in water, daily 1 dose, taken orally twice in the morning and evening.
Step 6 manage
60g of corn stigma, 30g of watermelon peel, 7 crickets, Radix Rehmanniae 15g, and Cortex Cinnamomi1.5g.. Decoct with water, 1 dose, once every other day, and take 4 ~ 5 doses continuously. After the symptoms subside, take Jisheng Shenqi Pill twice a day, 6 ~ 9g each time.
7. Treat schistosomiasis, liver cirrhosis and ascites.
30-60g of corn stigma, 0/5g of winter melon seeds/kloc-and 30g of red beans. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose, 15/course of treatment.
8. Management
Stigma Maydis 15g, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae 45g and Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae 30g. Decoct with water.
9. Treat nephritis and early kidney calculi.
Corn silk, regardless of weight, fried thick soup, diligent service.
10, cure hematuria
Stigma Maydis 30g, shepherd's purse flower15g, cogongrass rhizome18g. Decoct with water to remove residue, 1, twice a day.
1 1. Treating hypertension with nosebleed and vomiting blood.
30g of corn stigma, 30g of banana peel and 9g of gardenia. Decoct with water, and cool.
12, emergency
30g of corn stigma and 30g of pseudostellaria heterophylla. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose, twice in the morning and evening. Jaundice should be cooked together; For chronic patients, add 30 grams of Caragana korshinskii root (or Polygonum cuspidatum root) for decoction.
13, treating gallstones
30g of corn stigma and 30g of reed rhizome,15g. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose.
In addition to medicine, corn stigma can also be used to cook porridge and soup. Here are six ways to eat corn silk. Come and have a look.
Edible method of corn stigma
1, coix seed corn stigma porridge
50g of coix seed, 50g of rice, 0/5g of fresh corn stigma/kloc-0, and 0/5g of cogongrass rhizome/kloc-0. Boil cogongrass rhizome and corn stigma, remove residue after 20 minutes, add coix seed and rice and cook into porridge. It can clear away heat and dry dampness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It is used for patients with erythema nodosum of damp-heat accumulation type.
2, corn beard cogongrass rhizome soup
30g of corn stigma, 30g of lalang grass rhizome and 8 pieces of red dates. Soak the three herbs in cold water 1 hour, then simmer for 40 minutes, and eat jujube and soup twice. This product can clear away heat, promote gallbladder and expel stones, and is suitable for cholelithiasis of damp-heat type in liver and gallbladder.
3, Dendrobium corn silk tea
Dendrobium 10g, Phragmites communis 15g and corn stigma 20g. Decoct soup instead of tea, one dose a day. It can nourish yin, clear heat and induce diuresis. It is suitable for oliguria and anuria patients with dry mouth and thirst, dry skin and wrinkles, and eye socket collapse.
4, corn must be boiled turtle
Corn silk 100g, soft-shelled turtle 1 only, a little seasoning such as onion, ginger, cooking wine, salt and monosodium glutamate. Add water 1 hour to the fish, tortoise shell and corn beard, add seasoning to taste, eat meat and drink soup, and eat 1-2 times a week, about 1 month. It can nourish yin and replenish blood, reduce blood sugar and blood lipid, and regulate blood sugar metabolism. It is suitable for insomnia patients with yin deficiency and turbid blood stasis.
5. Corn beard shepherd's purse soup
Fresh corn stigma 30g, shepherd's purse flower15g, cogongrass rhizome18g. Serve three flavors and fry them in water. It can nourish yin and clear heat, cool blood and stop bleeding, promote diuresis and dredge collaterals. It is especially suitable for the treatment of hematuria and edema due to yin deficiency.
6. Corn must be cooked with eggs.
Corn silk 100g, 2 eggs. Wash corn stigma and eggs separately, add water and cook together. When the eggs are cooked, peel them, cook for a while, and eat eggs and drink soup. It has the functions of calming the liver, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, and is suitable for patients with prostatic hyperplasia with liver stagnation and qi stagnation.
Corn stigma is very effective, so do you know the effect of corn? Here's what corn does.
The efficacy of corn
1, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach
Corn is coarse grain in the north and feed in the south. However, from the point of view of the homology of medicine and food, corn is sweet and flat, and belongs to the stomach and bladder meridian, which has the functions of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness.
2. Anti-aging
Corn is famous for its diverse ingredients. For example, corn contains vitamins A and E and glutamic acid, and animal experiments have proved that these ingredients have anti-aging effects.
3. Prevent constipation and arteriosclerosis.
Corn is rich in cellulose, which can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation, but also promote cholesterol metabolism and accelerate the excretion of intestinal endotoxin. Corn oil from corn embryo contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, of which linoleic acid accounts for 60%, which can remove harmful cholesterol from blood and prevent arteriosclerosis.
Step 4 prevent cancer
Corn is not only rich in vitamins, but also contains five times as much carotene as soybeans, which is also good for inhibiting carcinogens.
5, skin care effect
Corn also contains lysine and selenium, and its antioxidant effect is beneficial. At the same time, B2, B6 and other places are also rich in corn. It has the functions of protecting nerve conduction and gastrointestinal function, preventing beriberi and myocarditis, and keeping skin healthy.
6. Hypoglycemic effect
Corn silk has certain cholagogic, diuretic and hypoglycemic effects, and is mostly used by the people for diuresis, clearing away heat and detoxifying. For example, for patients with chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome, 50-60g of dried corn stigma can be decocted with 0/0 times of water, and taken orally three times a day, which is very beneficial to diabetic patients in lowering blood sugar, but the effect is slow, so it should be drunk frequently.
7, laxative effect
Corn residue and corn stalk core have a good laxative effect. Take100g corn residue, soak it in cold water for half a day, stew it with slow fire, add sweet potato pieces, cook it together, and eat it with porridge, which can relieve the habitual constipation of the elderly.
Therefore, both corn and corn stigma are good things. Remember to save the corn beard and use it reasonably when eating corn in the future.