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Herbal Teas & Flowers
Corn Silk
Zea mays
Corn silk (Zea mays) is the tuft of long, fine threads, the styles and stigmas of the maize flower, that hangs from the top of a cob. It is taken only from plants that have matured and set their cobs, gathered when the maize is harvested and then dried. The dried threads are cut small and either steeped or brought to the boil in water, roughly 10 g to a 200 ml bowl, and left to cool before drinking. The silk holds sitosterol and stigmasterol, a bitter glycoside, saponin, mucilage, a fixed oil and an essential oil.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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