After the corn stigma is washed, put it in a pot and decoct it with low fire. The boiled corn stigma water can be used to make tea, which has a special taste. Is the function of corn stigma just to make tea? In fact, corn stigma is a good medicine with good health preservation effect. In Chinese medicine, corn stigma is called dragon beard, which has the functions of diuresis, detumescence, calming the liver and benefiting the gallbladder.
One: lose weight, diuretic and lipid-lowering.
Corn stigma can help to eliminate edema, not only that, it can also help people lose weight, diuretic and lipid-lowering, and it is suitable for some patients with obesity and edema.
Two: lowering blood pressure and blood sugar.
Corn silk contains a lot of potassium nitrate, vitamin K, sitosterol and other nutrients, which can help to lower blood pressure and blood sugar, and the effect is not bad. In summer, you can often cook corn at home and add some corn silk, so as to make the best use of it.
Three: benefit the gallbladder
Drinking corn stigma water can help bile secretion, can be used as a cholagogic drug, and has a good effect on the adjuvant treatment of gallstones and cholecystitis. Corn stigma is sweet and flat, and has the function of calming the liver and cholagogic.
1: Drinking corn beard often in summer can help cool blood and relieve summer heat, but because of its diuresis, it should not be used as an option to replenish water after exercise.
2. Although corn silk has no side effects, it is not recommended to drink it for a long time in life, and some physical discomfort may occur.
3. When boiled with water, you should not eat corn stigma, which is not a suitable choice for most people.
Corn silk is the waste of food processing, and it has no nutritional value. Those so-called benefits are just analogies of traditional Chinese medicine thinking, and it is sheer nonsense to say that anything with fine holes can get through.
People who believe in Chinese medicine always say that Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, and it is based on Huangdi Neijing. However, corn is the food of the New World, and it was only introduced to China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, not to mention the Emperor's Neijing written by the Han people. Those Chinese medicine practitioners in Tang and Song Dynasties don't know what corn is. Now they are talking about the medicinal use of corn silk. Isn't this embarrassing?
The various uses and benefits of corn silk can be summed up in a word: nonsense.
The only advantage of drinking corn silk water is that it is drunk. If you can't drink enough pure water and have to soak something in the water, it makes sense to drink corn silk water, which is the same as drinking other messy things to soak in water and plays a psychological role. Among all the "benefits" of drinking corn stigma water, the only thing that makes sense is diuresis, because you drink enough water, which is the effect of water and has nothing to do with corn stigma.
If you must soak in water, why not drink tea? Compared with corn stigma water or other messy water, tea is much better. There is caffeine in tea, although it is only 1/5 of coffee, it can also play a refreshing role.
Don't believe everything people say here, or you will make up something else to soak in water tomorrow, and you will follow suit. Are you tired?
Corn must have diuretic, antihypertensive, cholagogic, hemostatic and other health care functions. Although the diuretic effect of its decoction is not as fast as that of western medicine, its effect is relatively lasting.
Corn silk corn silk tea refers to a kind of tea beverage made of corn silk, which has the functions of diuresis, edema elimination and weight loss. Soaking corn stigma in water has the following effects:
1, prevent the occurrence of stones
Soaking corn stigma in water can effectively remove cholesterol in human blood, prevent the occurrence of lithiasis, clear liver and benefit gallbladder, promote the excretion of impurities in the body and reduce its viscosity.
2. Prevent hyperglycemia
Corn stigma, also known as "dragon beard", contains a large number of nutrients and medicinal substances, such as tartaric acid, malic acid, bitter glycoside, polysaccharide, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol and so on. Soaking corn stigma in water can effectively promote blood circulation in the body, increase vascular elasticity and accelerate sodium excretion in the body. The hypoglycemic component can promote insulin secretion, and insisting on soaking in water can prevent hyperglycemia.
3. Prevent kidney diseases
Soak corn stigma in water to drink, which has the effect of diuresis and detumescence, can effectively improve renal function, reduce the occurrence of body burden, effectively prevent chronic nephritis blisters, and has a very good therapeutic effect on body edema. In addition, it also has the function of reducing urinary protein or completely removing urinary protein, and promoting health.
Corn silk is a kind of medicinal material with no side effects, which will not harm the human body, but some people are not suitable for eating. For example, for people with hypoglycemia, corn must have the function of lowering blood sugar. People with hypoglycemia eat corn must soak in water, which will lower blood sugar and make them prone to dizziness and weakness. Therefore, people with hypoglycemia had better not eat it.
Corn must have the function of expelling water from the body and promoting diuresis, so there will be an increase in urine when eaten. Then people with frequent urination and urgency are prone to an increase in urine, and it is even more impossible to control the discharge of urine, and there may be a situation where they can't catch up with the toilet.
Corn silk water has diuretic effect, although it also contains more minerals, but the minerals discharged by its diuretic effect are much higher than those supplemented by drinking corn silk water, so it can improve the osmotic pressure of blood vessels and lower blood pressure, so people with low blood pressure should not eat corn silk, which will lead to lower blood pressure and dizziness.
The transmission of neurotransmitters is closely related to potassium ions. Once potassium is lacking, the transmission of neurotransmitters will be hindered, which will affect mood, fatigue, dizziness, cramps in hands and feet, and weakness in limbs. Corn silk water will increase the urine output, and potassium ions in the body will also be excreted with urine. Therefore, people who are deficient in potassium will drink corn silk water, which will aggravate the phenomenon of potassium deficiency, so it is not recommended to eat it.
Hemostasis and coagulation
The effective components in corn silk can promote the coagulation of human platelets, increase the number of platelets, and also play a role in resisting hemolysis, and can be used in the process of hemostasis to stop bleeding and coagulate blood.
Clearing heat and relieving summer heat
Boiled water of corn beard has the functions of clearing away summer heat, clearing away heat and inducing diuresis. Supplementing water can clear away heat, and expelling water in the body can also expel the hot and dry gas in the body. Drinking it in summer has the function of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and drinking it in autumn has the function of clearing fire and removing heat.
Diuretic and edematous
Corn beard has diuretic effect, which can promote the discharge of chloride and water in the body and has diuretic effect; Reducing the moisture in the tissue can remove edema in the body, so corn must have the effect of diuresis to remove edema.
Reducing blood sugar and lipid
Corn silk can reduce the blood sugar content and cholesterol content in blood, so it has the function of lowering blood sugar and blood fat, and is suitable for people with hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia.
Promote hepatobiliary health
Drinking the water soaked in corn stigma can promote the excretion of bile, reduce the concentration of bile, calm the liver and promote the health of the liver.
Corn stigma is the hair on the corn head, and its functions and functions mainly include:
1. Corn stigma is sweet, light and flat in taste, enters the liver, kidney, gallbladder and bladder meridian, and has the functions of diuresis, detumescence, calming the liver and benefiting gallbladder, and is mainly used for treating acute and chronic nephritis, edema, acute cholecystitis, biliary calculi and hypertension. Modern pharmacological research shows that corn silk contains a lot of potassium nitrate, vitamin K, sitosterol, stigmasterol and a volatile alkaloid.
2. diuresis, eating corn must be soaked in water to drink, which has a good diuretic and detumescence effect, can improve renal function, and also has a good effect on patients with edema.
3. cholagogic, corn stigma can promote bile secretion and excretion, purify bile, reduce bile viscosity and bilirubin content, which is of great benefit to patients with cholecystitis and gallstones.
4. Lowering blood sugar. Drinking corn whisker water for diabetic patients has the effect of adjuvant therapy, but it cannot replace hypoglycemic drugs.
5. Stop diarrhea and drink corn silk water, which can also relieve diarrhea caused by indigestion.
Corn silk has no side effects, can be safely eaten, and is of great benefit to human body.
Analogy is an important way of thinking in traditional Chinese medicine.
The stigma of corn is a thread on the surface, but it is actually the pistil of corn. There is pollen in the pistil that can pass through, so the stigma of corn is actually tubular. Chinese medicine believes that drugs with fine pores can dredge collaterals, such as Akebia stem and Spatholobus stem, and corn silk is no exception. Moreover, after corn is pollinated, the pollen is downward, which causes it to have a downward-flowing temperament, which can promote diuresis and swelling, and promote bile excretion.
To put it simply, the function of corn stigma can be summarized as two words: "harmony and health".
Corn is not a native crop in China, so there is no corn stigma in the most traditional Chinese medicine, and there is relatively little research on it in Chinese medicine. In the Ming Dynasty's Herbal Medicine of Southern Yunnan, there was a record of corn stigma for the first time, but it was not widely used in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In recent years, it seems that this medicine has been used more and more, and it is considered to be sweet and flat, with diuretic, detumescence, blood pressure lowering, hemostasis and cholagogic effects, and can treat many diseases.
For example, Mr. Yue Meizhong treats chronic nephritis in children, and thinks that all boys and girls under 15 years old can get better or be cured if they take corn silk for a long time. Let's analyze why corn silk has these functions.
There are a large number of tubular structures in the kidney, which are very fine. To enter the subtle places, the drug gas must also be fine, and the drug gas is related to the shape and quality of the drug. The drug is coarse and its gas is coarse. The medicine is fine, and its qi is also fine. It is very suitable to use the slender tube shape of corn stigma to clear the stagnation in subtle places.
It's not easy to find other drugs to replace this medicine that the ancients can find. Although Akebia Akebia and Fangji also have fine pores, they are thicker in shape and more suitable for dredging large lumens. Moreover, they are stronger in qi and more dangerous in medicine. Nephritis in children is more suitable for mild drugs such as corn silk.
Stigma Maydis can also be used to treat hypertension, because it can dredge blood vessels, especially those with small diameters, and it is good for descending, which is also one of the reasons for lowering blood pressure.
To sum up, the indications of corn stigma are relatively wide, such as edema, urinary leakage, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, hypertension, diabetes, and milk obstruction.
Corn silk has diuretic, antihypertensive and hemostatic effects. It doesn't take effect as quickly as western medicine, but its effect is still lasting. It has a good therapeutic effect on nephritis and hepatitis, and can also reduce blood fat, blood pressure and blood sugar, and has the effects of cooling blood, purging heat and reducing swelling.
First, the benefits of drinking corn silk water:
1. Diuretic and detumescent corn beard is sweet, light and flat in nature, and belongs to kidney, liver and gallbladder meridians. It has diuretic effect on human body, which can increase the discharge of chloride, and the diuretic effect of corn stigma is extra-nocturnal, so it has certain effect on edema caused by various reasons, and can be used to treat chronic nephritis and nephrotic syndrome, but the effect is limited.
2. Hypotensive, hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic corn must have a certain dilating effect on peripheral blood vessels, so it can be used to lower blood pressure. Corn silk contains many beneficial ingredients, among which saponins, flavonoids and chromium have hypoglycemic effects. 3. Bile-promoting corn beard can promote bile secretion and excretion, and reduce organic matter and dregs in bile, so it can be used as a cholagogic drug for chronic cholecystitis without complications or cholangitis with bile discharge disorder. And can also be used for treating jaundice caused by hepatitis.
4. Hemostatic corn stigma can accelerate blood coagulation, increase the number of platelets and resist hemolysis, so it can be used as a hemostatic and diuretic for urinary calculi and bladder calculi, and can also be used for acute hemolytic anemia.
5. Anti-allergic corn must have anti-allergic effect and can be used to treat asthma, urticaria and allergic rhinitis.
6. Appetizing For patients with loss of appetite after surgery, chemotherapy and serious illness, the appetizing effect of soaking corn in water or boiling rice porridge is very good. It's hot every day in summer, so a cup of corn silk tea can also be appetizing.
7. Anti-diarrhea corn must be soaked in water to stop diarrhea. If diarrhea is caused by indigestion, especially watery diarrhea, you can try this recipe. Second, the corn must be soaked in water to pay attention to the problem:
1, corn must have the function of lowering blood sugar and blood pressure, and should not be taken by patients with hypoglycemia or hypotension.
2. Drinking corn stigma water will increase the urine volume. If drinking water is not supplemented in time at this time, it will lead to the rapid loss of body fluids.
3. Be sure to pay attention to the dosage when taking corn silk tea. The fresh corn silk should not exceed 20 grams a day; Sun-dried corn stigma, no more than 8 grams a day.
1, prevent the occurrence of stones
Soaking corn stigma in water can effectively remove cholesterol in human blood, prevent the occurrence of lithiasis, clear liver and benefit gallbladder, promote the excretion of impurities in the body and reduce its viscosity.
2. Prevent hyperglycemia
Corn stigma, also known as "dragon beard", contains a large number of nutrients and medicinal substances, such as tartaric acid, malic acid, bitter glycoside, polysaccharide, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol and so on. Soaking corn stigma in water can effectively promote blood circulation in the body, increase vascular elasticity and accelerate sodium excretion in the body. The hypoglycemic component can promote insulin secretion, and insisting on soaking in water can prevent hyperglycemia.
3. Prevent kidney diseases
Soak corn stigma in water to drink, which has the effect of diuresis and detumescence, can effectively improve renal function, reduce the occurrence of body burden, effectively prevent chronic nephritis blisters, and has a very good therapeutic effect on body edema. In addition, it also has the function of reducing urinary protein or completely removing urinary protein, and promoting health.