Stigma Maydis, also called Gracilaria lemaneiformis, is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which can secrete milk. Women with insufficient postpartum milk secretion can drink it in moderation to promote milk secretion.
Pharmacopoeia "South Yunnan Materia Medica" records that it can "moisten the intestines and lower the qi, and treat women's breast milk obstruction, breast milk obstruction, swelling and pain, chills and fever, headache and tiredness". Therefore, drinking corn stigma water is good for breastfeeding and will increase milk.
Other benefits of drinking corn silk water for lying-in women 1, reducing edema.
Corn must have diuretic and detumescence effects. Mothers who have just given birth will have some edematous obesity during confinement. At this time, they can drink some corn water in moderation, expel excess water from the body, reduce edema and achieve the effect of slimming.
Step 2 help urinate
Many women who have just given birth have difficulty urinating during a month-long rehabilitation period, especially those who have had caesarean section, which will be accompanied by embarrassment of not urinating, and corn must be diuretic and can help women who are pregnant for one month to urinate.
3. Helps the neonatal jaundice to subside.
Corn must clear away heat and promote diuresis, and the mother can reach the newborn through milk. Jaundice belongs to TCM heat syndrome. Drinking some foods that clear away heat and detoxify can help the jaundice of newborns to subside and accelerate bilirubin excretion through urination.
4, reduce neonatal eczema
Newborn eczema is often caused by the baby getting hot and humid, and corn is bound to have the effect of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and reducing fire, which is helpful to alleviate the phenomenon of neonatal eczema.
How do pregnant women drink corn silk water? Good brown sugar, corn silk water.
Ingredients: corn silk, brown sugar.
Practice: Stir the washed corn beard with brown sugar water, then simmer for 10 minute with low fire and stir evenly. You can take it after cooling. You can also add ice cubes according to your own preferences.
Application: diuretic and tonic.
Corn beard, black bean and pork soup
Ingredients: corn stigma 30g, black beans 50g, lean pork 100g, garlic 10g, ginger 5g and salt 5g.
Practice: Wash the corn stigma and black beans for later use. Clean lean meat and cut into small pieces; Slice ginger and peel garlic. Put corn stigma, black beans, lean pork, garlic, ginger, onion and salt into a stew pot and add 500 ml of water. Bring the saucepan to a boil with high fire, and simmer with low fire 1 hour.
Usage: 50 grams of pork and soup beans every time 1 time.
Efficacy: calming the liver and benefiting gallbladder, promoting diuresis and clearing heat.