Stigmata maydis
Zea mays (corn silk / stigmata) · Plant · Poaceae
Corn-silk has marked action on the urinary system with diuretic and litholytic properties. It is particularly valuable in conditions of urinary retention, calculus disease, and inflammatory conditions of the bladder and urethra.
Key symptoms
- Suppression and retention of urine
- Dysuria
- Renal lithiasis and nephritic colic
- Blood and red sand in urine
- Tenesmus after urinating
- Vesical catarrh and cystitis
- Gonorrhea with uric and phosphatic symptoms
Corn-silk (ZEA)
Has marked urinary symptoms, and has been used with success in organic heart disease, with much œdema of lower extremities and scanty urination. Enlarged prostate and retention of urine. Uric and phosphatic Gonorrhœa. Cystitis.
Urinary
Suppression and retention. Dysuria. Renal lithiasis; nephritic colic; blood and red sand in urine. Tenesmus after urinating. Vesical catarrh. Gonorrhœa. Cystitis.
Shucks (as a decoction used for chronic malaria, teaspoonful doses freely. Dr. E. C. Lowe, England).
Dose
Tincture in tent-to fifty-drop doses.
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