Product name : STIGMA MAYDIS

Item : GMP

Details :
     Corn silk, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the style and stigma of Zea mays L., a grass plant. Each fiber is extended from the stigma, and the bottom is connected to an ovule. When mature, it can grow to 30cm or longer, and its color is light green or yellowish brown. As a traditional Chinese medicinal material, it is harvested together when corn is harvested in autumn. Produced in most of the country. Summer and autumn fruits are collected when they are ripe to remove impurities. Used fresh or dried.
       In autumn, when farmers harvest corn, most of them throw away corn silk, which is actually quite a pity, but they do not know that it is a good medicine for curing diseases. Chinese medicine believes that corn silk is sweet and flat in nature and taste, enters the liver, kidney, and bladder meridian, has the functions of diuresis, swelling, calming the liver and gallbladder, and is mainly used for acute and chronic nephritis, edema, acute cholecystitis, biliary stones, and high blood pressure. wait. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that corn silk contains a large amount of potassium nitrate, vitamin K, sitosterol, stigmasterol and a volatile alkaloid. Diuretic, antihypertensive, hypoglycemic, hemostatic, choleretic and other effects. Therefore, there are many proven prescriptions composed of this product as the main drug, and the treatment of diseases is also very extensive.

   Pharmacological effects:
1. Diuretic effect: corn silk has a diuretic effect on humans or rabbits, and can increase the excretion of chloride, but the effect is weak. The methanol-insoluble part of its water extract has the strongest diuretic effect after dialysis (A), no matter oral, subcutaneous or intravenous injection has a significant effect. The diuretic effect is mainly extrarenal and has a weak effect on the kidneys.
2. Effects on the circulatory system: Intravenous injection of the decoction in anesthetized dogs has a significant antihypertensive effect, but it has no antihypertensive effect on dogs with chronic carotid arterial skin bridges if taken daily for 3 consecutive weeks. A dilates peripheral blood vessels at low concentrations.
3. Blood sugar lowering effect: The fermented preparation of corn silk has a very significant blood sugar lowering effect on rabbits.
4. Choleretic and hemostatic effects: corn silk preparation can promote bile excretion, reduce its viscosity, reduce its bile pigment content, so it can be used as a choleretic drug for uncomplicated chronic cholecystitis and cholangitis patients with bile excretion disorder. It can also accelerate the process of blood coagulation, increase the content of prothrombin in the blood, and increase the number of platelets, so it can be used as a hemostatic drug and diuretic for bladder and urinary calculi.

       Function and function:
       Diuretic and swelling; the effect of clearing the liver and gallbladder. Indications for edema, urination, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, high blood pressure, diabetes, and lactation obstruction. Diuretic, expel heat, calm the liver, promote choleresis. Beriberi, jaundice hepatitis, vomiting blood and epistaxis, nasal sinusitis, mastitis. Acute and chronic nephritis, edema, acute and chronic hepatitis, chronic sinusitis, urinary tract stones, biliary tract stones, dysuria, damp-heat jaundice embolism. And can prevent habitual abortion.

       Related compatibility:
       1. Treatment of rubella (commonly known as Fengdan) and pyretic toxicity: burn corn silk to ashes, and take it with fermented glutinous rice. ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine")
       2. Treatment of diabetes: one or two corn silk. Decoction. ("Zhejiang Folk Medicine")
       3. Treatment of essential hypertension: corn silk, watermelon rind, banana. Decoction. ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine")
       4. Treatment of brain leakage: Dried corn mustard, put it in a dry chimney and smoke it. ("Zhejiang Folk Medicine")

        Related Discourses:
       1. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": widen the intestines and lower the qi. Control women's breast knots, milk blockage, redness, swelling and pain, fear of cold and fever, headache and body sleepiness.
       2. "Lingnan Herb Collection": Treat diabetes with pork decoction. It also treats pee dripping with sand and stones, the pain is unbearable, and decoction is taken frequently.
       3. "Compilation of Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in the Folk": It can lower blood pressure, diuretic and reduce swelling. Control nosebleed, red collapse.
       4. "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Chronicles": clearing blood heat, diuresis. Control jaundice, wind-heat, rash, vomiting blood and metrorrhagia.

​Barcode: GMP
Ingredients: corn silk
Specifications: 16oz (454g)
Efficacy: diuretic, expels heat, calms the liver, promotes choleresis. Control nephritis edema, beriberi, jaundice hepatitis, hypertension, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, hematemesis and epistaxis, nasal sinusitis, mastitis.