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 crop, but in a short period of time it has become used in many areas of life. If the yellow cobs are grown for animal feed and for making pickled grains, the black cob is also used for medicinal purposes.

What's in the cob?

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

1. The grains contain a large number of microelements: iron, potassium salts, 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, and is a dietary product because 100 grams of the product contains only 120 calories.

What are the benefits of corn?

Let's take a closer look at the beneficial properties that consumption brings to the body:

• Potassium is involved in strengthening small and large vessels, the heart muscle pumps blood without interruption thanks to potassium. Since cobs contain a large amount of this element, the benefits for the heart are obvious.
• Vitamins B₁ and B₂ are involved in metabolism at the cellular level and help produce energy for human life. Keeps the heart muscles in good shape and ensures high-quality functioning of the central nervous system. They synthesize nerve cells in the brain, help the maturation of red blood cells in the blood, and protect the retina from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. Helps the formation of skin cells.
• Vitamin PP, popularly called nicotinic acid, is present in enzymes that participate 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 healthy, also dilates blood vessels and capillaries, which lowers blood pressure.
• Anthocyanin helps remove harmful and toxic substances from the body.
• Microelements are involved in various body processes: iron promotes the formation of hemoglobin in the blood.Calcium helps teeth, bones, nails and hair look healthy and strong.

Thus, maize helps the body:

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

How do corn decoctions help the body?

Among the recipes for treating and replenishing the body with microelements, there are several recipes, let’s look at them.

A decoction of the stigmas of the black fruit as an energy drink

The stigmas, or hairs that cover the cob, also have tremendous medicinal properties:

1. Decoctions of stigmas help the body cope with obesity.
2. Effectively help restore the liver after illness.
3. Act as a diuretic and choleretic agent.
4. Helps remove stones from the gall bladder, bladder and kidneys.
5. Helps cleanse the body of atherosclerotic plaques.
6. Also, decoctions and infusions treat hemorrhoids, hypertension, restore water-salt balance in the body, treat muscular dystrophy, and polio.

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

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

What are the benefits of decoction of corn grains?

Decoctions, another name for them is chicha moranda, from grains have a positive effect on:

1. Reducing blood sugar levels (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 the addition of lemon and without sugar).
3. To strengthen hair (rinse hair with a strong decoction after washing).
4. For the treatment of dermatosis (take baths with a strong, thick decoction).

How to prepare a healing drink called 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 (optional).

Wash all the ingredients thoroughly and put them in a saucepan, cut the apples into slices, peel the pineapple and also put them in the saucepan. Then pour in 4 liters of water and cook over low heat until the corn kernels burst. Remove from heat and add sugar and lemon juice if necessary. To treat diabetes, you should not add sugar to corn broth.

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

Other Medicines Using Corn Kernels

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

Tincture of stigmas with alcohol: you need to prepare 100 grams of stigmas and 100 milliliters of vodka. The raw materials need to be finely chopped and placed in a container, poured with vodka and left to infuse for 10 days.Strain and use for the treatment of cancer (3 drops of infusion every three days), treatment of psoriasis, ulcers, eczema (by lubricating the affected areas of the skin).

Corn grain ointment: you will need 50 grams of corn, 50 grams of petroleum jelly and 10 milliliters of palm oil. Remove the grains from the cob, grind them thoroughly in a mortar, add the remaining ingredients, and mix. The finished mixture is stored in the refrigerator. Used for dermatoses, purulent wounds, boils, fistulas and ulcers.

The recipe for preparing an ointment from smut, 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 fungal mass. Taken 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 fabric bag and applied to the affected areas.

Contraindications for use

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

1. Cannot be used if a person has a tendency towards increased blood clotting.
2. If a person has diseases: thrombophlebitis and increased thrombus formation.
3. Among the adverse reactions, the following have been recorded: headache after excessive consumption of corn and indigestion, since the healthy product, after consumption in its entirety, causes increased gas formation and is difficult to digest by the stomach.
4. It is also forbidden to eat vegetables if you have a stomach ulcer.

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