What are the effects and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine corn silk?

Corn silk is something very common in our daily life, and most people will usually throw away the silk-like thing on the top of the corn when eating corn. In fact, corn silk is a health product and has certain medicinal value. Generally, most people dry the corn silk directly and use it to soak in water to drink. The important thing is that corn silk can relieve many diseases if used to soak in water. The following introduces the effects and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine corn silk.

The effects of corn silk

1. Diuresis and swelling

In gynecology, it can be used to prevent habitual abortion, pregnancy swelling, milk blockage and other symptoms. Corn silk has a diuretic effect on humans and can increase the excretion of chloride. Its diuretic effect is exogenous, so it has a certain effect on edema caused by various reasons.

2. Reduce the three highs

Patients with high blood lipids, high blood pressure and high blood sugar can drink it to lower their blood lipids, blood pressure and blood sugar. Its antihypertensive mechanism is mainly central, and some believe that it is mainly the result of dilation of peripheral small blood vessels. Corn silk can counteract the blood-pressor effect of adrenaline. Corn silk contains vitamin K, which has a therapeutic effect on coagulation dysfunction caused by vitamin K deficiency.

3. Choleretic effect

Corn silk can significantly increase bile secretion and promote bile excretion. It can reduce the organic matter and residue in bile, and reduce the viscosity, specific gravity and bilirubin content. Therefore, it can be used as a choleretic for chronic cholecystitis without complications or cholangitis with bile excretion disorders.

4. Protect the heart

The flavonoids contained in corn silk can inhibit the production of harmful low-density lipoprotein and have the effect of protecting the heart. The cellulose content in fresh corn is 6 to 8 times that of refined rice and refined flour, which can lower the concentration of cholesterol in the blood and thus play a role in preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

5. Treat jaundice

Combined with Artemisia capillaris, it can also treat jaundice caused by hepatitis.

6. Stop bleeding

Because corn silk can accelerate the blood coagulation process, increase the number of platelets, and resist hemolysis, it can be used as a hemostatic and diuretic, applied to bladder and urinary stones, and can also be used for acute hemolytic anemia.

7. Anti-allergic

Because it has anti-allergic effects, it can also be used to treat urticaria and asthma.

8. Appetite

Corn silk has an appetite-stimulating effect. It can be used to boil water or cook rice porridge to treat patients with loss of appetite after surgery, chemotherapy, or serious illness. The effect is very good. In the hot summer, drinking a cup of corn silk tea has very good health benefits.

9. Lactation-promoting effect

"Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" believes that it "relaxes the intestines and relieves gas, and treats breast knots, milk obstruction, redness, swelling and pain, fear of cold and fever, headache and fatigue in women." The usual dosage is 30-60 grams, decocted in water. It can promote lactation and can be stewed with pig's feet and taken twice a day.

10. Antidiarrheal effect

For diarrhea caused by indigestion, especially watery diarrhea, corn silk or corn cobs boiled in water can have an antidiarrheal effect.

External use of corn silk for health care

1. Soak your feet in warm water and wash them.

2. Boil corn silk in water and soak your feet to treat athlete's foot, cold hands and feet, inhibit varicose veins, various carbuncles, boils, etc.