Corn in the garden: a brief description

Corn in the garden belongs to annual herbaceous plants, it grows up to three meters in height. This culture has a thick stem, up to four centimeters in diameter, wide leaves grow on it, reaching up to one meter in length.

Inflorescences are dioecious, feminine flowers are collected in cobs, which sit in leaves, the cobs themselves are wrapped in green leaves. The flowers are masculine at the ends of the stems, which are collected in panicles.

The fruit of corn is a large, glabrous, rounded or kidney-shaped weevil. It can be white, yellow, red, brown or even black in color. This plant begins to bloom in the middle of summer, the fruits themselves ripen in autumn around September or October.

They grow corn both for food purposes and for fodder purposes. From the cob of corn, clots of hair hang down, such long threadlike columns with stigmas, popularly also called corn stigmas.

Corn originated in Central and South America. It is widespread in Ukraine, the Caucasus and other countries.

The use of corn in the garden as a treatment.

Female flower columns, along with corn stigmas, are used to treat diseases. They are usually harvested during the milky-wax ripeness of the ears.

Also dry corn silk, or rather their extract, is used in scientific medicine. Tincture of corn silk and its liquid extract affect the increase in the secretion of bile, make it less viscous, also make the blood clotting process faster, and increase urine output.

Corn silk is also used as a choleretic, hemostatic and diuretic. As a choleretic agent, it is used for diseases such as cholecystitis, cholangitis and hepatitis.

Corn oil is used for the prevention, and in some cases for the treatment of atherosclerosis, as it acts to lower cholesterol levels in human blood.

The people insisted on a decoction of corn and used it for liver disease, as well as for women's diseases as a means of bleeding.

Decoctions from corn silk are prescribed for liver diseases, jaundice, treat various types of bleeding, edema, cure female diseases and use as a sedative.

Valuable substances are obtained from corn grains: starch, grape sugar, protein, acetic acid and other substances.

In Bulgaria, in folk medicine, it is used as a means that reduces appetite. Recommended for weight loss, decoctions are also used in case of attacks of kidney stones, dropsy and worms. Corn stigma is used as a diuretic and is widely used in diabetes.

Such a useful substance called glutamic acid is extracted from the fruits of this plant. This acid is used in industry that produce products with a long shelf life, it is used in canning fresh vegetables and fruits. By adding this acid to food, the taste and aroma of the food is preserved.

Also, acid is widely used to treat diseases associated with nerves and psyche and other diseases. Glutamic acid plays an important role in the metabolism of the human brain and heart.

Valuable substances such as starch, grape sugar, protein, acetic acid and other substances are obtained from corn grains.

When corn is harvested.

Corn silk must be harvested during the period when the cobs are ripe, as soon as milk ripeness begins. Dry corn silk in the shade.

They can also be chopped up to a powder, but they are usually left as they are or finely chopped. Corn silk must be kept in a dry place so that it does not lose its medicinal properties.

This culture contains a lot of vegetable protein, fats, starch, mineral salts and many different vitamins.

Unlike other cereals, this crop contains the most fat or so-called corn oil. Also, this culture is very rich in such a substance as phosphorus.

The use of corn for food.

For food we use the grains of corn themselves, as well as products in which there is their processing. The most valuable are maize grains, which are harvested during the period of milk ripeness, during this period they contain the most sugar and can be added to food without technical processing. Also, many different dishes are prepared from them.

Not only fresh corn is considered useful, but also frozen and canned corn, they also retain all the main nutrients.

Flour is produced from this plant, such as bakery, confectionery, children's and pancake flour.