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 Corn is one of the oldest crops. Homeland corn - America, and corn is mentioned in many myths and legends of the North American Indians.
Start of maize cultivation in Mexico referred to the 3400 - 3200 years BC Scientists have found grains of maize, which is not less than 60 thousand years.
Europeans first saw corn sailors of Columbus on the island of Cuba in 1492. And since corn is widely used not only in the Central, South and Latin America, but also in many countries around the world.
In the USSR, corn brought Nikita Khrushchev, and now it is grown in Russia, Moldova and the North Caucasus and other republics.
The vegetable has spread sweet corn. It is necessary to take care of manually. In cattle feed comes Fodder corn. Corn is used in medicine, cosmetics and cooking.
 Corn (maize) - an annual herbaceous plant with a solid single stems to 1, 5 - 3 meters high, filled with a core of family cereal. The leaves of maize wide, linear, sessile, wavy at the edges. Women pistillate flowers sitting in rows on a thick axis, form the cob with threadlike stigmas, which is located in the axils of leaves in the middle of the stem. Male flowers in the form of spikelets form apical spreading paniculate inflorescence. Flowering Corn in August.
The fruit - yellow or greenish-yellow grains round or kidney-shaped, milky ripeness to ripen in September and October. In the wild corn does not grow.
Maize weevil contain vitamins A, B, E, C, starch, fatty oil, nicotinic acid, trace elements - iron, manganese, copper, chromium, aluminum. Corn silk comprise: vitamin K, C, fatty oils, essential oils, pantothenic acid, gums, resinous substances, bitter glycosides, saponins ...
The bars with the stigmas of maize are soft silky threads collected bundles or partially entangled.
In folk medicine,
decoctions and infusions of stigmata is used in diseases of the liver, gallbladder, kidney, gastrointestinal tract, edema associated with cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the nervous system.
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Broth
2 tbsp. corn silk spoon sugar and 1 cup of hot boiled water in an enamel saucepan, cover and heat on a water bath for half an hour, cool, strain, pour boiled water to the original volume and take ¼ cup 4 times a day before meals.
- Corn oil is used for the treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis.
- Externally used to treat skin diseases.
 Corn in the care of a
Cornmeal cleans the face, removing not only the oil and dirt, and the dead cells.
- Pour in a bowl 2 tablespoons. tablespoons corn flour, add boiled water to the consistency of gruel, mix, apply on face for 15 minutes, rinse with warm water and rub the face with olive oil or a nourishing cream. Clean with a 1 every 3-4 weeks.
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Mask for oily skin contaminated
1 tbsp. a spoonful of corn flour mixed with 1 egg white, put on your skin, let it dry, gently wipe cloth and wash with water at room temperature.
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Nourishing Mask
Beat the egg white and mix it with 1 teaspoon honey and 1 tbsp. spoon of corn flour, add 1 teaspoon of olive oil and apply on face for 15 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
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Hydrating Mask
Boil until tender, 2 tbsp. spoon grains of corn, chop, add 1 teaspoon of honey and as much cream as to obtain a paste, apply on face for 15 minutes. Rinse with warm water, wash with cool.
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Corn oil for dry and brittle hair
Heat corn oil in a water bath and rub into the roots of the hair, put on his head a plastic cap and wrap top towel. After 1 hour, wash your hair with shampoo and rinse with warm water, lemon juice podkislёnnoy. Course 1, 5 months 1 time per week. Hair get shine, grow better and combed.
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