Corn silk tea
Overview
Last summer, my father was diagnosed with high blood pressure, and my mother’s blood sugar also needed to be controlled. Then I panicked, grabbed my phone, and ignored my children, so I immersed myself in researching how to get high blood pressure and how to control blood pressure and blood sugar. In addition to diet and medication control, I found out that corn silk can lower blood pressure and blood sugar, so I went to the vegetable field to pull corn and make corn silk tea for them to drink. With children by your side, even if it’s just a cup of corn silk tea every day, it’s the best Parents’ Day!
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Ingredients
Steps
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1Pick fresh corn and peel off its coat.
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Rinse the corn steel pot and add enough water to cook.
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Wash the corn silk.
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Boil the corn silk directly in the water used to boil the corn.
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During the growth process, corn is wrapped in corn husks and requires corn silk to absorb nutrients. Therefore, corn silk contains many vitamins and other nutrients. It can not only cool the blood and purge heat, but also remove dampness and heat from the body. It can be a diuretic and reduce swelling. After being made into tea, it is a good weight loss drink. Corn silk tea can relieve summer heat and clear away heat. Regular drinking has the effect of losing weight and is of great benefit in preventing and treating atherosclerosis and hypertension. Patients with high blood lipids, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar can lower their blood lipids, blood pressure, and blood sugar if they drink it. In traditional Chinese medicine, corn silk has a wide range of preventive and health uses. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can dilute water, reduce swelling, relieve heat, calm the liver and promote gallbladder, and can also resist allergies and treat nephritis, edema, hepatitis, hypertension, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, sinusitis, mastitis, etc. Corn silk has a very good hypoglycemic effect. As long as the majority of diabetic patients use it a little, they can "turn waste into treasure". Corn silk contains a large number of nutrients and medicinal substances, such as tartaric acid, malic acid, bitter glycosides, polysaccharides, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, etc. Since ancient times, corn silk has been widely used in China. It is also recorded in "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" that corn silk has hemostatic and diuretic effects. However, people's understanding of corn silk has always been limited to its diuretic and swelling effects, but they do not know that it is also a good medicine for treating diabetes. In southern China, corn silk and lean pork are often used to cook soup to treat diabetes. This is recorded in the "Lingnan Medicine Collection". In addition, there are similar content in many Chinese folk remedies, including soaking corn silk in water for drinking, or cooking corn silk into porridge for consumption, all of which have achieved good results
