Corn

Useful properties and applications of corn sugar

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Botanical characteristics of maize

Corn is an annual herbaceous plant that has a rounded erect stem and fibrous root. Its height may reach 5 m. the Leaves of corn, another with parallel venation. Male flowers are arranged in terminal spreading panicles, and female flowers have the form of cob. The fruit of the common corn ripen until mid-autumn. Homeland of this plant is South America, but today corn is cultivated everywhere.

Useful properties of corn

In ryltsa corn in great quantities of Pantothenic and ascorbic acid, carotenoids, bitter glycosides, volatile oil and alkaloids and sugar. Choleretic effect the stigmas of corn ordinary known since ancient times. They not only reduce the viscosity of bile and its density, and decreasing serum bilirubin. Raw corn also has a hemostatic effect, while there is an increase in the number of platelets in the blood and accelerate clotting.

The use of corn

Due to the fact that products containing corn items that have a diuretic effect, often used to reduce appetite and treatment of obesity.

Infusion: 4 tablespoons of corn ryltsev recommended pour 500 ml boiling water and insist 2 hours, then strain. Take a tincture of 100 ml before each meal in various diseases of the biliary tract and liver.

Stem and leaf of the corn

In modern medicine the stems and leaves of corn are not used. Leaf-stem mass is a high quality forage for cattle.

Corn silk. Drugs on the basis of corn stigmas are used in the removal of the inflammation of the bladder, as well as in cardiac edema. Stigmas often prescribed for cholangitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, and hepatitis as a cholagogue.

Medications corn silk can be used for inflammation of the bladder, and cardiac edema. In addition, if hypoprothrombinemia stigmas accelerate the important process of blood clotting and increase the number of platelets. Corn silk is effective in the treatment of prostatitis and cystitis. In addition, they are greatcalm the nervous system that allows them to advise patients in the elderly. With the help of these drugs, because of their properties of activation of metabolism, it is possible to maintain the appetite at the right level.

Corn nursing mother

Treatment during pregnancy medicines on the basis of the stigma of corn may be appointed only by a physician.

Corn Krasnodar

Krasnodar corn is an annual plant, height sturdy stems, which reaches 3 m. the thickness of the stems is about 3 cm, while at the base they are much stronger and have well-defined nodes. The leaves of this plant are broadly lanceolate in shape. The flowers are grouped in panicle and framed leaf axils. Corn grows well in Krasnodar in the Kuban region, bringing large fruit in early October.

Corn white

White corn is a special sort of annual plants, which has a white, juicy fruits. The height of the stems is on average 1-3 m. the Leaves are pointed, linear, the staminate flowers, clustered in terminal panicles, and female flowers appear on the cob. The fruit has the form of white fine grains with a slightly elongated shape. This corn is more demanding on the soil, humidity and temperatures. The cob gives it only in Sunny places, absolutely not accept even partial shade. The cob of this variety can reach 20 cm soft and the grains have a sweet taste.

Sweetcorn

Sweetcorn is a wonderful annual plant that can grow in almost any conditions, is cultivated in many countries of the world. The height of the strong stems up to 2-3 m wide leaves have a lanceolate shape. With the beginning of flowering collect medicinal corn silk, their drying is in the shade outdoors. This medicinal raw material is used in disorders of the liver and gall bladder, in the presence of stones in the urinary tract, with enuresis, cholecystitis, cardiac edema, glaucoma, prostatitis and cystitis.

Contraindications to the use of corn

Due to the fact that corn silk may increase the prothrombin, it is not recommended to take those patients in whom elevated levels of blood coagulation, as well as with thrombophlebitis and thrombosis.