Herbs that are Beneficial to the Kidneys

In hot summers, people like eating corns and throw away the corn silk. Actually this is a kind of wastes because corn silk has many benefits to both healthy people and kidney patients.

According to the Chinese medicines, corn silk has high medical values and it can help lower blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipid. It also has the functions of alleviating swelling, clearing internal heat and antianaphylaxis and can be used to treat nephritis, edema, hepatitis, high blood pressure, cholecystitis, gallstones, diabetes, sinusitis, mastitis, etc.

1. Diuresis. Corn silk has the function of diuresis and it can help increase the excretion of chloride and has a certain effects on edemas caused by various reasons. Therefore it can be used to treat chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome.

2. Anti-hypertension. Corn silk can expand the peripheral vessels and help control the blood pressure. Corn silk can relieve the increase of epinephrine. Small dosage of corn silk has no influence on the heart while large amount of corn silk can cause weakness of the heart beat.

3. Regulation of blood sugar level. Animal experiment has shown that corn silk is effective on lowering high blood sugar. What is more, it has no influence on the blood pressure of the normal rats.

4. Stop bleeding. Corn silk can increase platelet and alleviate hemolysis and it can be used as an astringent to treat acute hemolytic anemia and stones in the bladder and urinary tract.

What is more, corn silk has many other benefits including lowering cholesterol, detoxification and increasing appetite, etc.

As for the toxicity of corn silk, it is very low and there is nearly no toxicity in various preparation of corn silk. If taken within the safe dosage, it nearly has no influence on heart, respiratory system, peripheral blood vessels and intestinal muscles.

Besides corn silk, there are many herbal medicines that are conducive for kidney health. Both healthy people and kidney patients can have some herbal medicines to both treating kidney diseases and preventing potential kidney damages.