Nutritional and Medicinal value of maize silk


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Authors

  • Sapna Sapna
  • Waseem A Siddiqui

Abstract

Corn silk has been used as diuretic, antilithiasic, uricosuric, and
antiseptic. It is used for the treatment of edema as well as for cystitis, gout, kidney stones, nephritis, and prostatitis. These activities may be due to the presence of flavonoids, alkaloids, phenols, steroids, glycosides and tannins in corn silk.

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Author Biographies

  • Sapna Sapna
    ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research,
    Pusa Campus, New Delhi 110 012,
  • Waseem A Siddiqui
    Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Jamia
    Hamdard, Delhi-110 062.

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Submitted

2017-12-01

Published

2017-12-05

Issue

Vol. 67 No. 5 (2017)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Sapna, S., & Siddiqui, W. A. (2017). Nutritional and Medicinal value of maize silk. Indian Farming, 67(5). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IndFarm/article/view/76182