The efficacy and function of corn silk The medicinal value of corn silk

Corn silk is the floc on the top of corn. It is very common in daily life and is not taken seriously. That is because people do not understand its effects and functions, do not know that it can be used as medicine, and do not understand its medicinal value. Today, the editor will take you to learn about corn silk. After you understand it, you will have a new understanding of it and will definitely think that corn silk is an indispensable good thing in life.

The efficacy and function of corn silk

1. Diuresis and swelling

Corn silk can promote the excretion of chloride in the human body, reduce water retention, and promote urine production. Drinking it in water can be both diuretic and detumescent. It has a significant effect on alleviating edema caused by hypertension and nephritis in humans, and can quickly improve the symptoms of nephritis.

2. Clear the liver and promote bile secretion

Clearing the liver and promoting bile secretion is also one of the important functions of corn silk. Corn silk can promote the secretion of bile in the human body and accelerate the excretion of bile. It can reduce the organic matter and residue in the bile in the human body, reduce the viscosity, and reduce the damage of viruses to the human liver. Corn silk can be used as a choleretic drug at ordinary times, and can also be used to treat common diseases such as human cholecystitis or cholangitis.

Medicinal value of corn silk

1. Corn silk can cure bleeding gums

Corn silk can not only promote diuresis and reduce swelling, clear the liver and promote bile secretion, it can also clear away heat and detoxify. It has a significant therapeutic effect on common gum bleeding in humans. During treatment, you can put 50 grams of corn silk in a thermos, pour in boiling water, take out after ten minutes and drink it instead of tea. Drink it within one day. If used for about seven days, the symptoms of gum bleeding will completely disappear.

2. Corn silk can stop bleeding

After corn silk is used as medicine, it can also have a significant therapeutic effect on human hematuria. During treatment, 30 grams of corn silk or 15 grams of shepherd's purse and 18 grams of Imperata root can be boiled in water, and then the liquid medicine can be taken. In addition, when people have symptoms of vomiting blood, corn silk can also be used for treatment, but during treatment, corn silk needs to be used together with banana peel and gardenia, so that people's symptoms of vomiting blood can be quickly relieved.