The efficacy and role of corn silk tea is to drink it for patients with high blood lipids, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar. It can lower blood lipids, blood pressure, and blood sugar.

Four taboos on drinking corn silk tea:

1. Do not drink it when the body is short of water

Corn silk tea is suitable for use when our body is short of water. Come to replenish your body with water. This is because corn silk tea has a good diuretic effect and will speed up the water metabolism in our body.

Drinking corn silk tea at this time is no different from drinking dove to quench thirst. Not only can it not relieve the body's water shortage, but it will increase water loss and make your body more dehydrated.

2. Do not drink when you are overworked

Overworked people will have lower blood pressure due to reduced cardiopulmonary function, and corn silk tea has a good antihypertensive effect. Drinking corn silk tea at this time can easily cause the body's blood pressure to further decrease, which can easily cause symptoms such as dizziness and dark eyes.

3. Do not drink on an empty stomach

Drinking corn silk tea on an empty stomach will cause low blood sugar in our body due to the hypoglycemic effect of corn silk tea. Brings symptoms of sweating and panic to the body. At the same time, it will also aggravate the body's hunger symptoms, which is not conducive to human health.

4. Do not drink too much tea

When we drink corn silk tea, we need to pay attention to drinking it in moderation. Choose three to five grams each time you make tea. Do not drink too much frequently. Drink it, otherwise it is easy to cause discomfort to our body due to the good diuretic, hypoglycemic and antihypertensive effects of corn silk.

Extended information:

Corn silk is sweet, light, and neutral in nature. It has the effects of diuresis and swelling, calming the liver and promoting gallbladder. Clinically, it treats edema, dysuria, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, hypertension, diabetes, lactation obstruction, chronic nephritis and other diseases.

When used for dietary therapy, generally take 10 to 60 grams of corn silk and make tea or add it to soup. For example, to treat Futian urinary tract infection, you can decoction 60 grams of fresh corn silk and drink it frequently.

To treat nephritis and edema, you can use 30 grams of fresh corn silk, 15 grams of winter melon rind, and 30 grams of adzuki beans to make a soup.

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