2. add ice sugar or block sugar
3. can add carrot
Corn Silk Tea | People with edema and high blood pressure are the best!
Corn Silk tea is one of the summer heat-relief benefits. Corn Silk has the effect of reducing water and swelling. It is most suitable for people who suffer from edema due to excessive humidity. In addition, corn silk tea is more helpful in improving high blood pressure, diabetes and other problems.
Corn beard is sweet, light, and calm in nature. It belongs to the bladder and liver and gallbladder meridian; it has the effect of reducing water and swelling, calming the liver and promoting choleretic effects, and is effective against edema, urethritis, jaundice, cholecystitis, gallstones, high blood pressure, diabetes, and impaired milk. Has a certain effect.
Corn tea is suitable and unsuitable for people
Suitable: Summer heat is more suitable for drinking corn beard tea, especially for people with high blood pressure, high blood sugar, edema-type obesity, damp-heat type jaundice, difficulty urinating, painful urination, urethral inflammation, habitual abortion, etc.
Not suitable for people: People with low blood sugar, low blood pressure, frequent urination, urgency, potassium deficiency (dizziness, cramps in hands and feet, fatigue, etc.) should not be consumed.
Corn Tea Therapy
Corn Silk tea: clearing away heat, reducing swelling and removing dampness
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Corn Silk red date tea: nourishes blood, nourishes skin, diuresis and removes dampness
Corn Silk and Dendrobium tea: nourishing yin and promoting fluid, clearing away heat and diuresis
Tips for drinking corn silk tea
1. Timing: It is best not to drink on an empty stomach or overnight
2. Drinking frequency: Corn beard is gentle in nature, under normal circumstances, it will not cause side effects to the body, but no more than 3 times a week
3. Dosage: Fresh corn silk should not exceed 15 grams each time, and dry corn silk should be about 3-5 grams.
4. Do not drink too much: Corn must be diuretic and diuretic. If you drink too much, people with low blood pressure and low blood sugar will be prone to dizziness, fatigue and other discomforts.
Written by: Kin Fook Tong Registered Chinese Physician Chu Kin Chung | HK01 Health Edition