Chinese medicine believes that corn itself has the functions of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, promoting diuresis and infiltrating dampness. The water for boiling corn is helpful for harmonizing stomach, strengthening spleen and diuresis. Especially when summer comes, people who are greedy for cold drinks and food can drink boiled corn water.
What is the function of boiling corn water? 1, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, the summer heat is heavier, asparagus tea has the effect of cooling blood and purging heat, and can remove damp heat in the body; Corn silk also has an appetizing effect. In hot summer, drinking a cup of corn silk tea has quite good health care effect.
2, diuretic swelling corn must have diuretic effect on people, which can increase chloride ion excretion. Its diuretic effect is outside the kidney, so it has certain curative effect on edema caused by various reasons and can be used to treat chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome.
3. Jianpi Yiwei corn is a coarse grain, which is mostly used as feed in southern China. However, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, corn is sweet and flat, belonging to the stomach meridian and bladder meridian, and has the functions of invigorating the spleen and stomach, diuresis and dampness.
4. Preventing constipation Corn contains a lot of dietary fiber, some of which will be dissolved in water during cooking. Corn germ also contains a lot of corn oil, and some will be contained in the water where corn is cooked. After eating, it can lubricate the intestines, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels.
5, conditioning gastrointestinal corn can increase the intake of dietary fiber and help prevent constipation. When eating whole corn, we should pay attention to the white corn germ near the axis, because the content of unsaturated fatty acids in corn germ is 85%, and it is rich in vitamin E, which is helpful to the brain development of the fetus.
3 precautions for eating corn 1. When eating corn, all the embryo tips of corn kernels should be eaten, mainly because many nutrients of corn are concentrated here. The endosperm of tender corn kernels contains 85% unsaturated fatty acids and is rich in vitamin E.
2. Corn is especially suitable for spleen and stomach qi deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, malnutrition, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, obesity, fatty liver, cancer patients, memory loss, habitual constipation, chronic nephritis edema and middle-aged and elderly people.
3. Eating corn and wheat together can improve the absorption of protein.
Eating with eggs can prevent high cholesterol.
5, eat with beans, used for spleen and stomach weakness, frequent urination, nocturnal emission, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.