It should be corn, just its scientific name.

Corn

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Alien names include jade sorghum ("Compendium"), Fanmai and Yumai ("Liuqing Rizhao") 》), Xifanmai (Xuepu Miscellanies), Yumai, Yushu (Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs), Maize (Compendium), Rongshu (Guangqun Fangpu), Hongxumai ( "Menghua Prefecture Chronicle"), barley buns ("Yilin Compilation"), pearl millet, bracts, antler millet, royal rice ("Shuangxi Products"), baguette, land valley, corn millet ("Qi") "Four Woods of the People"), Xitianmai ("Pingliang County Chronicles"), Yulu Xiaoxiao ("Illustrated Research on Plant Names and Facts"), Xiansu ("Suixiju Food Spectrum"), pearl rice ("Erya Valley Name Research") , millet, millet ("Lingnan Medicine Collection"), wheat rice ("Chinese Medicinal Plants"), corn ("Guangxi Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicinal Plants").

The source is the seeds of the grass plant maize.

Plant form Maize

Annual herb. The stalk is stout, upright, 1 to 4 meters high, with pith between nodes and aerial roots at each node at the base. The leaves are long, flat, sword-shaped or lanceolate, with a tapered apex, wavy wrinkled edges, and a strong midrib. The male panicle is terminal, with twin male spikelets, 1 cm long, containing 2 florets; the two glumes are almost equal in length, membranous, with a raised back, and 9 to 10 veins; the outer lemma and the inner lemma are both transparent and membranous, several equal in length. Longer than the glume; anthers are orange-yellow, 5 mm long; the female spikelets are twin, arranged in 8 to 30 rows on a thick and spongy cob; the two glumes are equal, very wide, veinless, ciliated, the first floret Sterile; lemma is transparent and membranous, like a globule but smaller and hairless, with or without a palea; the second floret's lemma is like the first floret, with one lemma; the pistil has an extremely long and slender style. The caryopsis is slightly spherical and extends beyond the glumes and palea when mature. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.

It is cultivated throughout the country.

The roots (maize roots), leaves (maize leaves), styles (corn silk), and cobs (corn cobs) of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes. Each of them is detailed in the article.

Nature and flavor ① "Compendium": "Sweet, flat, non-toxic."

② "Yilin Compendium": "Sweet, light, slightly cold."

Meridian tropism (Compendium of Materia Medica): "Start, foot Yangming Meridian."

Function and Indications ① "Compendium": "Tune the middle and stimulate the appetite."

② "Medical Medicine" "Lin Zhuang Yao": "Yi Lung and Ning Xin."

③"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is a stomachic agent. Decoction also has diuretic effect."

Usage and Dosage: Oral administration: Decoction, cook or grind into fine powder for cake bait.