The role of corn silk:

1, diuretic effect?

Corn silk has diuretic effect on both humans and rabbits, and can be excreted with chlorine, but its effect is weak. The methanol-insoluble part of its water extract has the strongest diuretic effect, and it has obvious effect whether taken orally, subcutaneously or intravenously. The diuretic effect is mainly outside the kidney, and the effect on the kidney is very weak.

2, the role of recycling debris

Intravenous injection of decoction in anesthetized dogs has obvious antihypertensive effect, but taking medicine for 3 weeks every day has no antihypertensive effect on chronic carotid bridge dogs. At low concentrations, nails can dilate peripheral blood vessels.

3. lower blood sugar.

Corn silk fermentation preparation has obvious hypoglycemic effect on rabbits.

4, cholagogic, hemostatic effect

Corn silk preparation can promote bile excretion, reduce its viscosity and increase its bile pigment content, so it can be used as a cholagogic drug for patients with chronic cholecystitis and cholangitis without complications. It can also slow down the process of blood coagulation, increase the content of prothrombin in blood and increase the number of platelets, so it can be used as a hemostatic and diuretic for bladder and urinary calculi.

Extended data:

The cellulose content in corn is very high, which can protect the stomach and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, and the corn must be sweet and flat. Other nutrients can enhance human metabolism, regulate nervous system function, make skin soft and smooth, and inhibit and delay the generation of wrinkles. In traditional Chinese medicine, corn stigma is also called Gracilaria lemaneiformis, which is sweet and flat, and has a wide range of preventive and health care uses.

Because corn is wrapped in corn bags in the growth process, it needs corn stigma to absorb nutrients, so corn stigma contains many vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only cool blood and reduce fever, but also get rid of damp heat in the body, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, and make tea into a good slimming drink.

Nutritionists point out that corn silk contains valuable flavonoids, glycosides, minerals, organic acids and sugars, which have medicinal values such as antioxidation, antitumor and immunomodulation, and are worth making full use of.

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