Seeing that corn must have so many health functions, I began to soak in water. Wash the corn whiskers every morning and put them in a glass of water. Corn must be washed like tea, covered and soaked. At first, I thought corn silk tea had a strange smell, so when I brewed it again, I added three or five people named Qiuhuahua to the cup to make corn silk tea and chrysanthemum tea more fragrant together.
Yang Guohua, chief physician of Wangjing Hospital, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, commented: Stigma Maydis, Ganping, Chinese medicine believes that it can induce diuresis and detumescence, clear away heat, calm the liver and benefit gallbladder, and can also resist allergy, and treat nephritis edema, hepatitis, hypertension, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, sinusitis and mastitis.
Corn silk has diuretic effect on people and can increase chloride excretion. Its diuretic effect is outside the kidney, so it has certain curative effect on edema caused by various reasons. Although it can be used to treat chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome, its effect is not very strong.
Corn silk can dilate peripheral blood vessels, so its antihypertensive effect is weak.