People often clean the corn silk when cooking corn, but they don't know that corn silk has great benefits for the human body.
Recommended Dietary Therapy
1. Corn Silk Stewed with Pig Pancreas
According to the "Reference Materials for the Study of Common Disease Prescriptions", corn silk stewed with pig pancreas is a recommended dietary therapy.
Take 30 grams of corn silk, wash it, and cut 150 grams of pig pancreas into pieces. Boil the two ingredients in water for 40 minutes, add appropriate seasoning, and take the soup to drink. Drink it twice a day, completing one course of treatment in 10 days.
Pig pancreas has a sweet and neutral taste and can clear lung and stomach heat. When paired with corn silk, it can be used to treat symptoms such as pulmonary tuberculosis, cough, and polydipsia (diabetes).
2. Corn Silk Tea
Usually, you can just soak the corn silk in water: take 50 grams of corn silk, rinse it twice with clean water, put it into a cup, pour boiling water over it, cover it, let it steep for a few minutes, and then drink it as tea. Alternatively, you can boil it to make a concentrated juice and drink it warm twice a day.
Corn silk is usually collected after autumn when the corn has ripened and the corn silk has dried. If fresh young corn cobs are picked for corn silk, it will affect the growth of corn kernels.
Benefits of Eating Corn
1. Diuretic
It can increase the excretion of chloride and has certain therapeutic effects on edema caused by various reasons.
2. Lower Blood Pressure
Corn silk has a vasodilating effect on peripheral blood vessels and has a weak antihypertensive effect.
3. Promote Bile Excretion
Corn silk can promote the excretion of bile and can be used as a choleretic drug for chronic cholecystitis without complications or bile duct inflammation with obstruction.
4. Antihemolytic
Corn silk can accelerate blood clotting, increase the number of platelets, and has antihemolytic effects. It can be used as a hemostatic and diuretic drug for bladder and urinary tract stones and for acute hemolytic anemia.
5. Antiallergic
Corn silk has antiallergic effects and can be used to treat urticaria, asthma, etc. The detoxifying effect of corn silk can be used to treat mastitis, etc.
