Anyone who has seen it will know that in the outer layer of corn, there is a layer of whiskers, which is corn whiskers. When we eat corn, we usually pull out these whiskers first and throw them away as garbage. In fact, this is a waste. As early as ancient times, Chinese medicine found that corn must be a good ingredient for health care and even treatment.

Medicinal value of corn stigma: According to ancient Chinese medicine books, corn stigma is "sweet in taste and slightly warm in nature". What does this mean? That is to say, the taste of corn stigma is sweet, and its feeding habit is slightly hot. We can know its function according to this information.

The taste is sweet, which can't explain its pharmacological action. Mainly talk about "gentle sex". We know that eating too much too hot food can easily cause the body to get angry, but there is no need to worry too much about lukewarm ingredients. People with "cold" constitution can use a lot of corn silk to adjust and improve their constitution and make themselves healthier.

Chinese medicine believes that corn must belong to liver, bladder and gallbladder, so its efficacy mainly occurs in these parts. Hepatitis is the most common liver disease. Patients can adjust their liver by eating corn silk to make it stronger. The liver is the main place for us to detoxify. Only when the liver is strong can we cope with the disease.

In the prescriptions prescribed by Chinese medicine for many patients with gallbladder diseases, corn stigma may not be used much. However, we should know that corn must be often used to make soup, which has the function of tonifying gallbladder, which will be of great benefit to gallbladder health and help to treat gallbladder diseases.

Similarly, corn stigma has the same effect on bladder. People with weak bladder organs or people with related diseases can effectively regulate bladder function and improve bladder health by drinking corn stigma soup.

How to eat corn stigma: How to eat corn stigma is very simple. Buy corn with whiskers and cook it in a pot with corn. When the corn is ripe, you can take out the soup from the pot. This is sweet corn beard soup. The main nutrients of corn and beard are in this soup. In addition, you can pull down the corn stigma for collection. When you want to eat, take some and cook it in a pot, so that you can eat it specially and save waste. If you don't like the bad taste of the soup, you can add some sugar.