The efficacy and function of dried corn silk

Corn is a food that everyone is familiar with. It is a type of coarse grain. Eating corn regularly can promote the body's metabolism and accelerate the body's bowel movement. Relieve constipation and reduce the symptoms of constipation. Corn silk is a normal structure growing on corn. The role and efficacy of dried corn silk are relatively large. It can be considered a Chinese medicinal material, so what are the effects and functions of dried corn silk?

1. Diuresis and swelling reduction; clearing liver and promoting bile secretion

Indications: edema, dribbling urine, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, hypertension, diabetes, and milk obstruction.

2. Treatment of chronic nephritis

Take 50 grams of dried corn silk, add 600 ml of warm water, and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes over low heat to obtain about 300 to 400 ml of medicinal liquid. Filter and take orally once a day or in divided doses. 9 cases of chronic glomerulonephritis were treated. After more than 10 months of observation, 3 of them were cured, 2 improved, and the remaining 4 had no obvious effect. The effects of corn silk are mainly manifested in diuresis, improvement of kidney function, disappearance or reduction of edema, disappearance or reduction of urine protein, etc. In some cases, no toxic side effects were observed after taking the drug for 6 consecutive months.

3. Treatment of nephrotic syndrome

Use 60 grams of dry corn silk each time, wash and boil it. Twice daily, morning and evening. At the same time, take 1 gram of potassium chloride, 3 times a day. Twelve cases were clinically treated, of which 10 had severe systemic edema, or pleural effusion and ascites, and 2 had mild edema. After 3 months of treatment, 9 cases had completely subsided edema, and 2 had mostly subsided edema. In one case, edema completely disappeared 15 days after taking the medicine. Generally, diuresis will begin to occur 3 days after taking the medicine. At the same time, urine protein and non-protein nitrogen will decrease to varying degrees. In a few cases, plasma protein will increase. In some cases, phenol red test and blood pressure will return to normal.

4. Treatment of acute hemolytic anemia complicated by hemoglobinuria

In the treatment of 2 cases of this disease caused by poisoning from eating wild plant bird-attracting sticks, 1 to 2 liang of corn silk decoction was taken orally. The urine volume of the two cases increased 4 and 6 hours after taking it respectively, and the soy sauce-like hematuria was no longer visible to the naked eye. Later, jaundice decreased or disappeared. During the treatment, 5% glucose saline was intravenously infused, vitamin C and blood transfusion were given simultaneously.