Corn must have diuretic, antihypertensive, cholagogic and hemostatic effects, and its decoction has a lasting diuretic effect, although it is not as fast as western medicine. It has good therapeutic effect on nephritis and hepatitis. Patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia can reduce blood lipid, blood pressure and blood sugar; Has the effects of cooling blood, purging heat and reducing swelling; In gynecology, it can be used to prevent habitual abortion, pregnancy swelling, poor lactation and other diseases. ...

Seeing that corn must have so many health functions, I began to soak in water. Wash the corn whiskers every morning and put them in a glass of water. Corn must be washed like tea, covered and soaked. At first, I thought corn silk tea had a strange smell, so when I brewed it again, I added three or five people named Qiuhuahua to the cup to make corn silk tea and chrysanthemum tea more fragrant together.

Yang Guohua, chief physician of Wangjing Hospital, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, commented: Stigma Maydis, Ganping, Chinese medicine believes that it can induce diuresis and detumescence, clear away heat, calm the liver and benefit gallbladder, and can also resist allergy, and 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 to treat chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome, its effect is not very strong.

Corn silk can dilate peripheral blood vessels, so its antihypertensive effect is weak.

Corn silk can promote bile excretion, so it can be used as a cholagogic drug for chronic cholecystitis without complications or cholangitis with bile excretion disorder. It can also be used to treat jaundice caused by hepatitis.

Because corn beard can accelerate the process of blood coagulation, increase the number of platelets and resist hemolysis, 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 must have an appetizing effect. I often use it to boil water and cook porridge to treat patients with loss of appetite after surgery, chemotherapy and serious illness, and the effect is very good. The usual usage of corn stigma is to take it after decoction, and the usual oral dosage is 50 ~100g per day.