Corn silk has the functions of prevention and health care, sweet taste and high cellulose content, and can protect the stomach, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, eliminate damp heat in the body, induce diuresis, lower blood pressure, promote gallbladder function, reduce swelling and lower blood sugar. The nutrients contained in it can also enhance human metabolism, regulate nervous system function, make skin tender and smooth, and delay the generation of wrinkles. It is also a good slimming drink.

Edible method

Corn tea

Boil the corn with whiskers in a pot 1 hour. Pour out the soup and you can eat it. It has the effects of clearing away heat and stranguria, calming the liver and promoting gallbladder function. It can be used as daily conditioning tea for patients with gallstones and cholecystitis.

Boiled eggs with corn whiskers

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 is used for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia due to stagnation of liver qi.

Dendrobium corn silk tea

Put a proper amount of Dendrobium, Stigma Maydis and Rhizoma Phragmitis into a teacup, then pour it into boiling water, and take it once a day after 10 minutes. It has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis.

Extended data:

Corn silk is produced in most areas of China, and contains fatty oil, gum, resin, picroside, saponin, alkaloid, cryptoxanthin, vitamin, pantothenic acid, inositol, sitosterol, stigmasterol, malic acid and oxalic acid.

Often assembled into a loose cluster, the style is linear or whisker-shaped, the complete length is 30 cm, the diameter is 0.5 mm, it is light green, yellowish green to brownish red, shiny, slightly transparent, forked, soft, tasteless and tasteless, and the soft and shiny one is the top grade. Soaking in water is the style and stigma of beard, and it can also be dried and used.

References:

People's Network-Medicinal Value of Corn Stigma