The benefits and harms of black corn, its properties and the preparation of medicinal decoctions

Corn is successfully grown in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and many other countries. Black corn is a recent cultivation, but in a short period it has become used in many areas of life. If yellow cobs are grown for animal feed and the preparation of pickled grains, then black cobs are still used for medicinal purposes.

What's on the cob?

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

1. The grains contain a large amount of microelements: iron, potassium salts, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, nickel, copper.
2. Vitamins B₁, B₂, E, PP, K, A and C.
3. It 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.

Why is the composition of corn useful?

Let us consider in more detail what beneficial properties the use brings to the body:

• Potassium is involved in strengthening small and large blood vessels, the heart muscle pumps blood without interruption due to potassium. Since the cob contains a large amount of this element, the benefits for the heart are obvious.
• Vitamins В₁ and В₂ are involved in metabolism at the cellular level, helping to produce energy for human life. Supports heart muscles in good shape, ensures high-quality work of the central nervous system. They synthesize nerve cells in the brain, help the maturation of erythrocytes in the blood, and protect the retina from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. Helps the formation of skin cells.
• Vitamin PP, popularly referred to as niacin, is present in enzymes that are involved in the metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Helps the formation of blood hemoglobin. Promotes the production of gastric juice. It helps the skin to be healthy, also dilates blood vessels and capillaries, which lowers blood pressure.
• Anthocyanin helps to eliminate harmful and toxic substances from the body.
• Trace elements are involved in various processes in the body: iron contributes to the formation of hemoglobin in the blood. Calcium helps your teeth, bones, nails, and hair look healthy and strong.

Thus, maize helps the body:

1. cope with stress;
2. strengthens muscles;
3. reduces pressure;
4. restores the deficiency of vitamins and minerals;
5. promotes hematopoiesis.

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How do corn decoctions help the body?

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

Black fruit stigma decoction as an energy drink

The stigma of the ears, or the hairs that cover the ear, also have tremendous healing properties:

1. Broths from stigmas help the body cope with obesity.
2. Effectively help to restore the liver after illness.
3. They act as a diuretic and choleretic agent.
4. Promote the elimination of stones from the gall, bladder and kidneys.
5. Help cleanse the body of atherosclerotic plaques.
6. Also, decoctions and infusions treat hemorrhoids, hypertension, restore the water-salt balance in the body, treat muscular dystrophies, poliomyelitis.

It is quite simple to prepare a decoction and infusion of stigmas: take 10 grams stigma of corn 300 grams of water, simmer in an enamel saucepan with a closed lid.

The infusion is prepared as follows: 10 grams of stigmas are poured with one glass of boiling water and insisted. After cooling, filter the tincture and use 1-3 tablespoons before meals 3-4 times a day.

Why is a decoction of corn grains useful?

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

1. Reducing blood sugar (take a quarter glass several times a day before meals).
2. Reducing cholesterol and removing plaque in blood vessels (take a liter of decoction per day with lemon and sugar free).
3. To strengthen hair (rinse hair with a strong decoction after washing).
4. For the treatment of dermatosis (take baths with a strong thick broth).

How to make the healthful chicha moranda from corn?

You will need:

1. 1 kilogram of black cobs;
2. 1 pineapple;
3. lemon;
4. two apples;
5. 1 clove;
6. cinnamon stick;
7. sugar for taste (you can not add).

All ingredients are thoroughly washed and put in a saucepan, apples are cut into slices, pineapple is peeled and also put in a saucepan. After that, pour 4 liters of water and cook over low heat until the corn kernels burst. Remove from heat, add sugar and lemon juice if necessary. For the treatment of diabetes, sugar should not be added to the corn broth.

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

Other medicines using corn kernels

Tincture of black corn: the cobs with grains are cut into several parts, placed in a container and poured with vodka. 200 grams of corn will require 500 milliliters of vodka. The mixture is infused for 7 days in a dark room. Then filter. They are used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, for bronchitis, pneumonia, lung cancer.

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Tincture of stigmas for alcohol: you need to prepare 100 grams of stigmas and 100 milliliters of vodka. The raw materials must be finely chopped and put in a container, filled with vodka and infused for 10 days. It is 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 areas).

Corn Ointment: You need 50 grams of kernels, 50 grams of petroleum jelly, and 10 milliliters of palm oil. The grains are freed from the cob, thoroughly ground in a mortar, the remaining ingredients are added, and mixed. The finished mixture is stored in the refrigerator. Used for dermatoses, purulent wounds, boils, fistulas and ulcers.

The recipe for making a smut ointment, its benefits and harms: the fungal mass is removed from the cob, ground in a mortar, mixed with 50 grams of petroleum jelly, 50 grams of beeswax and 50 milliliters of palm oil. In this case, you need to take 100 grams of the fungal mass. Accepted for 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 attached to the affected areas.

Contraindications for use

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

1. Cannot be used if a person has a tendency to increase blood clotting.
2. If a person has diseases: thrombophlebitis and increased thrombus formation.
3. Among the side reactions, the following were recorded: headache after excessive consumption of corn and indigestion, since a useful product after consumption in its whole form causes increased gas formation, is difficult for the stomach to digest.
4. It is also forbidden to eat a vegetable for stomach ulcers.

As you can see, there are much fewer contraindications to the use of grains than healing effects on the body. Therefore, take decoctions, infusions of corn grains and hairs and be healthy.