Corn silk helps lower blood fat

Corn, also known as pearl rice, is one of the five cereals that provide good nutrition for the body. Corn kernels contain a lot of protein, lipids, sugars, vitamins and minerals. Protein is 30% in corn, globulin and albumin are usually relatively high in content; especially yellow corn also contains high content of vitamin A.

Corn silk is also a medicinal herb that Oriental medicine believes has a sweet and mild taste, diuretic and blood pressure lowering effects. Clinically, people use corn silk to treat nephritis, not only with obvious effectiveness but also to reduce or eliminate albumin in urine. In addition, corn also has the effect of stopping bleeding, strengthening the spleen, stopping diarrhea, promoting bile, and at the same time reducing cholesterol in the blood and softening the arterial wall.

Thanks to that, corn is considered an ideal health-restoring food for people with edema, arteriosclerosis, coronary artery disease, hypertension, fatty liver disease, and obesity in the elderly and middle-aged.

Here are the most typical corn remedies:

Treatment of hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary artery disease: use 30 - 60g cornstarch, add enough water, stir well into a thin paste, cook, add sesame oil, onion, ginger, salt to taste and eat. Eat once a day, need to eat continuously for 2 - 3 months as a course of treatment.

Cure edema and poor urination due to chronic nephritis: 30g corn, 15g corn silk, boil in water to get the water to drink instead of tea during the day. Should be used for several consecutive months.

According to Suckhoevadoisong