STIGMATA MAYDIS
Corn-silk (ZEA)
Has marked urinary symptoms, and has been used with success in natural coronary heart disease, with a lot oedema of decrease extremities and scanty urination. Enlarged prostate and retention of urine. Uric and phosphatic Gonorrhoea. Cystitis.
Urinary.–Suppression and retention. Dysuria. Renal lithiasis; nephritic colic; blood and crimson sand in urine. Tenesmus after urinating. Vesical catarrh. Gonorrhoea. Cystitis.
Shucks (as a decoction used for continual malaria, teaspoonful doses freely. Dr. E. C. Lowe, England).
Dose.–Tincture in tent-to fifty-drop doses.