6. Purple Corn Dosage and Contraindications

Doses:

• Tincture of corn silk: 24 parts of green corn silk in 100 parts of diluted alcohol. Cut the silk into small pieces with a large pair of scissors, after which, place in a mortar and beat into a pulp with a small quantity of the diluted alcohol. Allow to macerate for forty-eight hours; then, filter adding enough diluted alcohol and continue the percolation until one hundred parts are obtained. The tincture possesses the characteristic odor of corn silk, is of a yellow straw color, and of a pleasant, sweetish taste. Dose for an adult, four to eight cubic centimeters.
• Fluid Extract of Corn Silk: Green corn silk, 200 g; glycerin, 20 g, and diluted alcohol, a sufficient quantity to make 100 cm3. Cut the silk into small pieces. Mix the glycerin with eighty grammes of diluted alcohol. Place the cut corn silk into a mortar, and beat into a pulp with a portion of the menstruum; after which, pack in a cylindrical glass percolator; add sufficient of the mixture to cover the pulpy mass, and when the liquid commences to drop from the percolator close the lower orifice; cover the percolator tightly, and allow to macerate for forty-eight hours; then permit percolation to go on slowly, about forty drops per minute; add the remainder of the glycerin mixture, and then diluted alcohol until the drug is exhausted, reserving the first seventy cubic centimeters of the percolate; evaporate the remainder to thirty cubic centimeters, and mix with the reserved portion, making in all one hundred cubic centimeters. The odor and taste is similar to that of the tincture, but much stronger, and a shade or two darker. Dose for an adult from two to four cubic centimeters, every 2 to 4 hours.
• Syrup of corn silk: twelve parts of fluid extract of corn silk, and eighty-eight parts of syrup. Dose: from four to eight cubic centimeters.
• Infusion of fresh corn-silk is said to be the most active preparation, and should be freely administered.
• An infusion of parched corn is useful in allaying the nausea and vomiting attendant upon many diseases. It may be drank freely.

Contraindications:

• Zea mays L. ‘Kculli’ is being eaten since at least 2 500 years ago. Nobody has ever reported any damage caused by its ingestion.

Drug interactions:

• Not known.

Precautions:

• If you experience adverse reactions interrupt immediately its use and ask your doctor.
• Important: As with other dietary supplements consult a physician before using this product if you are being treated for any medical condition.

Toxicity:

• Archaeological findings indicate that Zea mays L. ‘Kculli’ is being eaten as human food since at least 2 500 years ago. No intoxication has ever observed in humans, caused by its ingestion.