Chinese medicine believes that cornhusk is sweet and flat, 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 and so on.
Cornhusk has a certain effect on edema caused by various causes, has a diuretic effect, can be used to assist in the treatment of chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome.
Many hypertensive patients drink water boiled with corn husk, because corn husk has a dilating effect on peripheral blood vessels, can be used to lower blood pressure.
Cornhusk promotes bile excretion, so it can be used as a choleretic for chronic cholecystitis without complications or cholangitis with impaired bile drainage. Combined with the yellowness-reducing Yin Chen, it can also treat jaundice caused by hepatitis.
Cornhusk can also accelerate the process of blood coagulation, increase the number of platelets, can be anti-hemolytic, can be used as a hemostatic drug cum diuretic, applied to bladder and urinary tract stones, but also can 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 and so on.
The detoxifying properties of cornhusk can be used to treat mastitis, among other things.
In addition, cornhusk also has appetizing effect, Chinese medicine often use it to boil water to boil rice porridge to treat patients with loss of appetite after surgery, chemotherapy and serious illnesses, the effect is very good. The usual use is to decoct the soup and take it internally, and the usual amount is 50 to 100 grams per day.