1, diuresis, detumescence
In gynecology, it can be used to prevent habitual abortion, pregnancy swelling, breast obstruction and other diseases. Corn silk has diuretic effect on people and can increase chloride excretion. Its diuretic effect is outside the night, so it has certain curative effect on edema caused by various reasons.
2, down three highs
Patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia can reduce blood lipid, blood pressure and blood sugar. Its antihypertensive mechanism is mainly central, and some people think it is mainly the result of dilating peripheral small blood vessels. Corn silk can resist the pressor effect of adrenaline. Corn silk contains vitamin K, which has therapeutic effect on coagulation dysfunction caused by vitamin K deficiency.
3, cholagogic effect
Corn silk can significantly increase bile secretion, promote bile excretion, reduce organic matter and residue in bile, and reduce viscosity, specific gravity and bilirubin content. Therefore, it can be used as a cholagogic drug for chronic cholecystitis without complications or cholangitis with bile discharge disorder.
4, the role of protecting the heart
Flavonoids contained in corn stigma can inhibit the production of harmful low-density lipoprotein and protect the heart. The cellulose content in fresh corn is 6~8 times that of polished rice and refined flour, which can reduce the concentration of cholesterol in blood, thus playing a role in preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Step 5 treat jaundice
It can also be used to treat jaundice caused by hepatitis.
Step 6 stop bleeding
Because corn stigma can accelerate the process of blood coagulation, increase the number of platelets and resist hemolysis, it can be used as a hemostatic and diuretic, applied to bladder and urinary calculi, and can also be used for acute hemolytic anemia.
7. Anti-allergic drugs
Because it has anti-allergic effect, it can also be used to treat urticaria and asthma.
8, appetizing effect
Corn must have an appetizing effect. It can be used to boil water or cook rice porridge to treat patients with loss of appetite after surgery, chemotherapy and serious illness, with good effect. In hot summer, drinking a cup of corn silk tea has a very good health care effect.
9, weight loss effect
Corn is one of the diet foods in coarse grains. There are many kinds of corn, but because of its high cellulose content, it has a strong satiety and can help you reduce your food intake. At the same time, corn can also promote the detoxification of the body.
10, lactation period
What do you think of southern Yunnan materia medica? Broaden the intestines and lower the qi, and treat women's breast milk obstruction, breast milk obstruction, red eyes and pain, chills and fever, headache and physical drowsiness? . The usual amount is 30? 60 grams, decocted in water. It can promote lactation and can be stewed with pig's trotters twice a day. 1.
1 1, antidiarrheal effect
For diarrhea caused by indigestion, especially watery diarrhea, corn stigma or corncob decoction has antidiarrheal effect.
Efficacy and function of corn stigma boiling water
The content of cellulose 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 beard tea, also known as long beard, is sweet and flat, and has a wide range of preventive and health care uses. Because corn is wrapped in corn bags during the growth process, it needs to rely on 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 eliminate damp heat in the body, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. After making tea, it is a good slimming drink.
In traditional Chinese medicine, corn stigma has a wide range of preventive and health care uses. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can induce diuresis to reduce swelling, clear away heat, calm the liver and promote gallbladder function, and can also resist allergy, and treat nephritis edema, hepatitis, hypertension, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, sinusitis and mastitis. Replacing tea with boiled water can relieve summer heat. Regular drinking can reduce weight, which is of great benefit to the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis and hypertension. Patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia can reduce blood lipid, blood pressure and blood sugar.
Medicinal value of corn stigma
It has the function of diuresis and detumescence; The effect of clearing liver and benefiting gallbladder. Indications: edema, urinary leakage, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, hypertension, diabetes and mammary gland obstruction.
1, for treating hypertension and dizziness.
Stigma Maydis 50g, Flos Chrysanthemi 10g, decocted in water. This is a daily dose 1, which is taken orally twice in the morning and evening.
2. Treat acute nephritis
60g of corn stigma, 30g of watermelon peel, 7 crickets, Radix Rehmanniae 15g, and Cortex Cinnamomi1.5g.. Decoct with water, 1 dose, once every other day, and take 4 ~ 5 doses continuously. After the symptoms subside, take Jisheng Shenqi Pill twice a day, 6 ~ 9g each time.
3. Treat gingival bleeding
50g of stigma Maydis is put into a thermos, brewed with boiling water, covered with 10 minutes or more, and taken in batches within 1 day, with 1 dose per day, with 7 days as 1 course of treatment.
Step 4 treat dizziness
Stigma Maydis 50g, decocted in place of tea, daily 1 dose, three times in the morning, noon and evening.
5, cure cough
Stigma Maydis 30g, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 9g, decocted in water, daily 1 dose, taken orally twice in the morning and evening.
6, the treatment of schistosomiasis, cirrhosis, ascites
30-60g of corn stigma, 0/5g of winter melon seeds/kloc-and 30g of red beans. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose, 15/course of treatment.
7. Treat urinary tract infections
Stigma Maydis 15g, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae 45g and Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae 30g. Decoct with water.
8. Cure hematuria
Stigma Maydis 30g, shepherd's purse flower15g, cogongrass rhizome18g. Decoct with water to remove residue, 1, twice a day.
9. Treat hypertension with epistaxis and hematemesis.
30g of corn stigma, 30g of banana peel and 9g of gardenia. Decoct with water, and cool.
10, treating acute and chronic hepatitis.
30g of corn stigma and 30g of pseudostellaria heterophylla. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose, twice in the morning and evening. For patients with jaundice, add wormwood and cook together; For chronic patients, add 30 grams of Caragana korshinskii root (or Polygonum cuspidatum root) for decoction.
How does corn silk lower blood sugar
The method of reducing blood sugar of corn stigma is widely circulated among the people, which in itself shows that corn stigma has a certain hypoglycemic effect, but there is not much scientific research on reducing blood sugar of corn stigma at present. Some studies have pointed out that it may be that the saponin in corn stigma plays a role in lowering blood sugar. Nevertheless, corn stigma can never replace hypoglycemic agents. If you take hypoglycemic drugs and drink corn stigma water as an auxiliary treatment, it may have a good effect.
1, hypertension: corn stigma 40g, banana peel 40g, gardenia 15g, decocted in water and taken after cooling. Stigma Maydis 30g, Semen Cassiae 15g, and Flos Chrysanthemi 10g are also acceptable. Brew with boiling water and drink it frequently instead of tea.
2, diabetes: 60 grams of corn silk, 30 grams of pumpkin flowers, decoction instead of tea.
Edible method of corn stigma
1, coix seed corn stigma porridge
50g of coix seed, 50g of rice, 0/5g of fresh corn stigma/kloc-0, and 0/5g of cogongrass rhizome/kloc-0. Boil cogongrass rhizome and corn stigma, remove residue after 20 minutes, add coix seed and rice and cook into porridge. It can clear away heat and dry dampness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It is used for patients with erythema nodosum of damp-heat accumulation type.
2. Corn beard shepherd's purse soup
Fresh corn stigma 30g, shepherd's purse flower15g, cogongrass rhizome18g. Serve three flavors and fry them in water. It can nourish yin and clear heat, cool blood and stop bleeding, promote diuresis and dredge collaterals. It is especially suitable for the treatment of hematuria and edema due to yin deficiency.
Corn must be cooked with eggs.
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 has the effects of calming the liver, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, and is suitable for patients with prostatic hyperplasia with liver stagnation and qi stagnation.
4, Dendrobium corn silk tea
Dendrobium 10g, Phragmites communis 15g and corn stigma 20g. Decoct soup instead of tea, one dose a day. It can nourish yin, clear heat and induce diuresis. It is suitable for oliguria and anuria patients with dry mouth and thirst, dry skin and wrinkles, and eye socket collapse.
Side effects of corn stigma
Corn silk has no side effects and no toxicity, so we can safely eat it.
Records of corn silk medical books
1, Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: Purging the bowels and reducing qi. It can be used for treating women's breast lump, breast obstruction, swelling and pain, chills and fever, headache and body drowsiness.
2, "Lingnan Materia Medica Collection": Treating diabetes with pork soup. It also treats urine dripping with gravel and unbearable pain, and frequently takes decoction.
3, "folk commonly used herbs compilation": can lower blood pressure, diuretic and detumescence. Treat nosebleed and red collapse.
4, "Sichuan Chinese Medicine": clearing blood heat and facilitating urination. Treat jaundice, wind-heat, rash, hematemesis and erythema.
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