Corn Silk Extract 4% Potassium
Latin name: Stigma Maydis
Part of the plant used: Stamen, stigmas (collected when corn sheds its pollen)
Product specifition: 4% Potassium
Active Ingredient: Maizenic acid, vitamin K, mucilage, saponins, allantoin, tannin
Product type: Powder, Granular or Capsule
Test method: HPLC
Functions:
It has the effects of diuresis, reducing blood suger,cholagogue function and stanch
1. Diuretic effects: Corn on the person or rabbits have a diuretic effect, can increase the amount of chloride discharge, but are less effective. Methanol-insoluble part of its water extract after dialysis were (a) the strongest diuretic effect, whether oral, subcutaneous or intravenous injections have a significant effect. Diuresis is mainly extra-renal in nature, the role of the kidneys is very weak.
2. For the role of the circulatory system: decoction of intravenous anesthesia in dogs a marked hypotensive effect, but the dog with chronic carotid artery skin bridge, daily medication for 3 weeks, no antihypertensive effect. A at low concentrations on the role of peripheral blood vessels to expand.
3. Lower blood sugar: the fermentation of corn to be agents of the rabbits have a very significant reduction in blood sugar.
4. Can be used as choleretic drug for uncomplicated chronic cholecystitis, cholangitis in patients with bile discharge barriers. It can also speed up the process of blood clotting and increase blood levels of thrombin yuan, increased platelet count, they can be used as a styptic and diuretic and urinary bladder stones.
5. Of sweet corn to be short and flat, portal triad, kidney, bladder through, with diuretic swelling, Pinggan gallbladder function, indication of acute and chronic nephritis, edema, acute cholecystitis, bile duct stones and high blood pressure and so on. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that corn must be included in a large number of potassium nitrate, vitamin K, sitosterol, stigmasterol, and a volatile alkaloid. There diuretic, blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, bleeding, gallbladder and so on.
Applications:
1. Applied in pharmaceutical field,corn silk extract can be used as medicine to treat uncomplicated chronic cholecystitis;
2. Applied in health food field, corn silk extract can be made into preparations to play diuretic and antihypertensive function;
3. Applied in food field, corn silk extract antimicrobial activity in a specific environment is stability, therefore can be used as a potential food preservative.
