Black corn: benefits and harms, properties and preparation of healing decoctions

Corn is successfully grown in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and many other countries. Black corn is grown recently, but in a short period has become used in many areas of life. While yellow cobs are grown for animal feed and pickled grains, black cobs are also used for medicinal purposes.

What is on the cob?

Black corn quickly won a place of honor among medicinal herbs and plants due to its composition:

1. Grains contain a large number of trace elements: iron, potassium s alts, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, nickel, copper.
2. Vitamins B₁, B₂, E, PP, K, A and C.
3. Contains a large amount of anthocyanin, in simple terms - antioxidants.
4. Corn is rich in proteins, fats, fiber and carbohydrates, while it is a dietary product, because 100 grams of the product contains only 120 calories.

What is the benefit of the composition of corn?

Let's take a closer look at what beneficial properties the use brings to the body:

• Potassium is involved in strengthening small and large vessels, the heart muscle pumps blood without interruption thanks to potassium. Since there is a large amount of this element in the cob, the benefits for the heart are obvious.
• Vitamins B₁ and B₂ are involved in metabolism at the cellular level, help produce energy for human life. It maintains the muscles of the heart in good shape, ensures the high-quality work of the central nervous system. Synthesize nerve cells in the brain, help the maturation of red blood cells, protect the retina from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. Helps skin cell formation.
• Vitamin PP, popularly referred to as nicotinic acid, is present in enzymes that are involved in the metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Helps in the formation of hemoglobin in the blood. Promotes the production of gastric juice. Helps the skin to be he althy, also dilates blood vessels and capillaries, which reduces blood pressure.
• Anthocyanin helps to eliminate harmful and toxic substances from the body.
• Trace elements are involved in various body processes: iron contributes to the formation of hemoglobin in the blood. Calcium helps teeth, bones, nails and hair look he althy and strong.

Thus, maize helps the body:

1. manage stress;
2. strengthens muscles;
3. reduces blood pressure;
4. restores vitamin and micronutrient deficiencies;
5. promotes blood formation.

How do corn decoctions help the body?

Among the recipes for the treatment and replenishment of the body with microelements, there are several recipes, consider them.

Decoction of black fruit stigmas as an energy drink

The stigmas of the cob, or the hairs that cover the cob, also have colossal healing properties:

1. Decoctions of stigmas help the body cope with obesity.
2. Effectively help to restore the liver after illness.
3. Act as a diuretic and cholagogue.
4. Contribute to the removal of stones from the gallbladder, bladder and kidneys.
5. Contribute to the cleansing of the body from atherosclerotic plaques.
6. Also, decoctions and infusions treat hemorrhoids, hypertension, restore the water-s alt balance in the body, treat muscular dystrophy, poliomyelitis.

Preparing a decoction and infusion of stigmas is quite simple: take 10 grams of corn stigmas per 300 grams of water, boil over low heat in an enamel pan with a closed lid.

Infusion is prepared as follows: 10 grams of stigmas are poured with one glass of boiling water and infused. After cooling, the tincture is filtered and consumed 1-3 tablespoons before meals 3-4 times a day.

What is useful decoction of corn kernels?

Decoctions, their other name is chicha moranda, from grains have a positive effect on:

1. Reduce blood sugar (take a quarter cup several times a day before meals).
2. Reducing cholesterol and removing plaque in the vessels (take a liter of decoction per day with lemon and no sugar).
3. To strengthen hair (strong broth rinse hair after washing).
4. For the treatment of dermatosis (they take baths with strong thick broth).

How to make a healing drink chicha moranda from corn?

You will need:

1. 1 kilogram of black cobs;
2. 1 pineapple;
3. lemon;
4. two apples;
5. 1 carnation;
6. cinnamon stick;
7. sugar for flavor (optional).

All the ingredients are thoroughly washed and put in a saucepan, apples are cut into slices, pineapple is peeled and also put in a saucepan. Then pour 4 liters of water and cook over low heat until the corn kernels burst. Remove from heat and add sugar and lemon juice if needed. For the treatment of diabetes, you can not add sugar to a decoction of corn.

This drink tones up, gives vital energy for work, helps to get rid of hated extra pounds, promotes recovery from cancer, removes toxins from the body. A real storehouse of vitamins and minerals.

Other medicines using corn kernels

Black corn tincture: cobs with grains are cut into several pieces, placed in a container and poured with vodka.For 200 grams of corn, 500 milliliters of vodka will be required. The mixture is infused for 7 days in a dark room. Then they filter. Used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, bronchitis, pneumonia, lung cancer.

Stigma tincture for alcohol: you need to prepare 100 grams of stigmas and 100 milliliters of vodka. Raw materials need to be finely chopped and put in a container, pour vodka and insist for 10 days. Filtered and used for the treatment of cancers (3 drops of infusion every three days), the treatment of psoriasis, ulcers, eczema (by lubricating the affected skin).

Corn Ointment: You will need 50 grams of grains, 50 grams of Vaseline and 10 milliliters of palm oil. The grains are released from the cob, thoroughly ground in a mortar, the rest of the ingredients are added, and mixed. The prepared mixture is stored in the refrigerator. Used for dermatoses, purulent wounds, boils, fistulas and ulcers.

Recipe for making a smut ointment, its benefits and harms: the fungal mass is removed from the cob, rubbed in a mortar, mixed with 50 grams of petroleum jelly, 50 grams of beeswax and 50 milliliters of palm oil. In this case, the fungal mass should be taken 100 grams. Taken with boils, purulent wounds and inflammatory processes.

Corn compress: 300 grams of corn is boiled on the cob, then dried in the oven. Then the grains are separated from the cob, poured into a cloth bag and applied to the affected areas.

Contraindications for use

Despite all the positive qualities of this vegetable, black medicine is contraindicated in the following diseases:

1. Not to be used if the person has a tendency to clotting.
2. If a person has diseases: thrombophlebitis and increased thrombus formation.
3. Among the adverse reactions, the following were recorded: headache after excessive consumption of corn and indigestion, since a useful product after consumption as a whole causes increased gas formation, it is difficult to digest by the stomach.
4. It is also forbidden to eat vegetables with stomach ulcers.

As you can see, contraindications to the use of grains are much less than healing effects on the body. Therefore, take decoctions, infusions from grains and hairs of corn and be he althy.

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