Can children drink corn silk water?

Everyone loves to eat corn, but many people will discard corn silk, thinking it is useless. Many elderly people will keep it and use it to make tea, because corn silk has good nutritional effects and is effective in preventing physical diseases. So, can children drink water boiled with corn silk? I wonder if corn silk is good for children's health. Let me give you a detailed introduction below.

Many people think that corn silk boiled water is medicine, so they naturally have to pay attention to the proportion when boiling medicine. In fact, there are not so many requirements for boiling corn silk water, and you can completely follow your personal taste.

The ratio of corn silk and water can be adjusted at will. If you like a stronger flavor, add more corn silk and less water.

Boil corn silk in water: Ingredients: 0.5 grams of green tea, 50-100 grams of corn silk.

Usage: Add 300 ml of water to corn silk, boil for 5 minutes, then add green tea. Take it in 3 doses, 1 to 2 doses a day.

Indications: Diabetes patients with turbid urine like paste.

If it is used to treat diabetes, the best effect is to boil purple Ganoderma lucidum in water. Purple Ganoderma lucidum can not only lower blood sugar and stabilize blood sugar, but also protect the liver and reduce the damage to the liver caused by long-term use of hypoglycemic drugs.

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1. 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.

2. To treat nephrotic syndrome, use 60 grams of dried corn silk each time, wash and boil it for oral administration. 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.

3. 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. It has been observed that corn silk not only has diuretic effects, but may also have anti-hemolytic, anti-allergic and detoxification effects.

By boiling corn silk in water, we can know that the things we discard in life may become treasures for curing diseases. Of course, when using many folk remedies, we still need to pay attention to medication safety. When necessary, we should consult a professional doctor before using the medication.

Especially very young children should be careful when drinking corn silk. In fact, corn silk itself has great effects. Can children drink water boiled with corn silk? Yes, they can, and the nutritional value is also very high. Especially for some neonatal jaundice, which is indeed very serious, drinking water boiled with corn silk can also have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on neonatal jaundice.