Latin: Stigma Maydis
Part used: corn stigma
Specification: 5: 110: 120: 1
Appearance: fine brown powder
Medicinal parts: Style
Tropism of taste: flat; sweet, bland; owned bladder, liver, gall bladder
Indications: diuretic swelling, dampness jaundice. Indications edema, shower drain urine, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, hypertension, diabetes, milk barrier.
Functions:
1. Diuretic effects
2. For the role of the circulatory system
3. Lower blood sugar
4. Can be used as choleretic drug for uncomplicated chronic cholecystitis
Applications:
1. Applied in pharmaceutical field,corn silk extract can be used as medicine to treat uncomplicated chronic cholecystitis;
2. Applied in health food field, corn silk extract can be made into preparations to play diuretic and antihypertensive function;
3. Applied in food field, corn silk extract antimicrobial activity in a specific environment is stability, therefore can be used as a potential food preservative.