The correct way to soak cornhusk in water is commonly to wash cornhusk, put it into water and cook it or soak it directly into boiling water and drink it.
Cornhusk is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, sweet in flavor and flat in nature, and belongs to the bladder, liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the efficacy of inducing water retention and eliminating swelling, and inducing dampness and jaundice (eliminating dampness and eliminating jaundice). It is clinically used to treat conditions such as dysuria (unruly urination), yang yellowness, yin yellowness, and so on.
The common clinical method is to decoct, first clean cornhusk, and then put into the water to cook or directly into the boiling water can be drunk, can also follow the doctor’s instructions with other Chinese herbs to drink.
Clinical records clearly show that cornhusk is used with Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria to treat oedema in spleen deficiency, and with Hai Jin Sha and Qian Cao to treat stone drenching (discharging gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, and unbearable pain in the lower back and abdomen). Used together with pearl grass and plantain, it can be used to treat heat drench (burning and stinging pain is obvious when urinating, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of traction in the lower abdomen).
It is recommended to drink cornhusk water under the identification of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, so as to avoid the adverse consequences of blind consumption.