Zea
Zea mays · Plant · Poaceae
Key symptoms
- Irritable conditions of the urinary tract: ureters, bladder, urethra
- Renal colic; chronic pyelitis; albuminuria with low specific gravity urine
- Cardiac dropsy; oedema of lower limbs with scanty urination
- Chronic retention of urine with great tenesmus after urinating
- Vesical catarrh; tenesmus of neck of bladder; ammoniacal urine with much mucus
- Makes heart's action slower and stronger; regulates cardiac rhythm
- Chronic gonorrhoea with prostatic involvement and painful urination
- Chronic malaria with gastric symptoms, anaemia, and periodicity
- Renal lithiasis with discharge of small calculi, red sand, and blood
- Great tenderness over abdomen, especially in region of ureters
Zea mays. Maize. Indian Corn. N. O. Gramineæ (Tribe, Phalarideæ).
Clinical
Albuminuria (St.). Cystitis (St.). Dropsy (St.). Gonorrhœa, chronic (St.). Heart, failure of (St.). Malaria, chronic (Sh.). Renal colic (St.). Pyelitis (St.). Urine, retained; suppressed (St.).
Characteristics
Two parts of Maize have been used in medicine, the pistils (Stigmata maidis) and the husks (Shucks), but I think it best to take them together. I have distinguished them under the heading CLINICAL by (St.) and (Sh.). The grain of Maize in bulk appears to be capable of generating a poisonous gas, as four men were suffocated, one fatally, on opening a cargo of maize for the purpose of discharging it in the London docks (H. W., xxxv. 436). Corn silk has been used in: (1) Irritable conditions of the urinary tract; ureters, bladder, urethra. (2) As a powerful diuretic in renal disorders unconnected with cardiac involvement. (3) Heart and urinary conditions combined. J. H. Cook gives an account of it in Med. Cent. (iv. 589). …
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