Cornhusk, sweet and flat, Chinese medicine believes that it can diuretic swelling, drain heat, calm the liver and bile, but also anti-allergy, treatment of nephritis edema, hepatitis, hypertension, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, sinusitis, mastitis, etc..

Cornhusk has a diuretic effect on people, can increase the amount of chloride discharged, and its diuretic effect is extra-renal, so there is a certain degree of efficacy for various causes of edema, it can be used for the treatment of chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome, but the role is not too strong.

Cornhusk has a dilating effect on peripheral blood vessels, so it has a weak antihypertensive effect

Cornhusk promotes bile excretion, so it can be used as a choleretic in chronic cholecystitis or cholangitis with impaired bile excretion that has no complications. Combined with the yellowness-reducing Yin Chen, it can also treat jaundice caused by hepatitis.

Because cornhusk can accelerate the blood coagulation process, increase the number of platelets, and can be anti-hemolytic, it can be used as an antiemetic and diuretic for bladder and urinary stones, and can also be used for acute hemolytic anemia.

Because it has an anti-allergic effect, so it can also be used for the treatment of urticaria and asthma.

The detoxifying properties of cornhusk can be used to treat mastitis, among other things.

Additionally, cornhusk has an appetizing effect, the author used it to boil water and rice porridge to treat patients with loss of appetite after surgery, chemotherapy and serious illness, the effect is very good. The usual use of cornhusk is to decoct the soup after serving, internal use of common amount is 50 to 100 grams per day