Yam, the dried rhizome of the plant Dioscoreaceae, is included in the Chinese Materia Medica as a herbal medicine, and its medicinal source is the dried rhizome of the plant Dioscoreaceae, which is a food with the same source of medicine and food, can be used as a medicinal herb or eaten as a food, and belongs to the alkaline food. Generally planted people called home yam, wild people called wild yam; Chinese herbal medicine called Huai Shan, Huai Shan yam, Huai Shan yam and so on. Because of its rich nutrition, it has been regarded as a good and inexpensive tonic since ancient times.

Yam contains protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of vitamins and other nutrients, but also contains amylase, choline, mucus juice enzyme and diosgenin. The amylase, also known as digestive elements, can decompose starch and other substances, if mixed with alkaline substances, the amylase effect disappears. It is tonic but not greasy, fragrant but not dry. Generations of medical practitioners have praised yam as "the essential medicine for the treatment of deficiency".

Yam is sweet in flavor and flat in nature; it belongs to lung, spleen and kidney meridians. Nourish the spleen; nourish the lungs; solidify the kidney; benefit the essence, which has a nourishing and strong, help digestion, astringent sweating, diarrhea effect, the main treatment of spleen diarrhea, lung deficiency cough, diabetes, thirst, urination, spermatorrhea, women and indigestion of chronic enteritis. Here we look at the main effects of yam. 1. Strengthening the spleen and stomach digestive because of yam amylase and other easily digestible ingredients, is conducive to the spleen and stomach digestion and absorption function, is a flat complementary to the spleen and stomach of the dual-use medicine and food products. It can be consumed regardless of spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency. Clinically, it is often used together with gastrointestinal drinks to treat weakness of the spleen and stomach, low food and body fatigue, diarrhea and other diseases.2. Nourish the kidneys and benefit the essence of the body, nourish the kidneys and benefit the essence of the role. All kidney loss spermatorrhea, women with excessive leukorrhea, frequent urination, etc., can be served. 3. lowering blood sugar has the effect of lowering blood sugar. It can be used for the treatment of diabetes, and is a good dietary supplement for diabetics.4. Prolonging life effectively prevents the precipitation of blood lipids in the blood vessel wall, and prevents heart and blood diseases. Obtain the benefits of mental tranquility, prolonging life.

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Yam is part of the potato family of foods and contains starch and protein, dietary fiber and potassium, vitamin C, beta-carotene, and also contains polyphenol oxidase and many other beneficial ingredients. It can be used both as a staple food with a feeling of satiety and as a vegetable

These people have a lot of benefits from eating yams:

1. People with weak intestinal digestion, yam is flat and sweet, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach and helping digestion. Especially for people with weak stomach and intestines such as poor appetite and indigestion. Especially fried yam, steamed yam puree, yam porridge, stewed yam and so on.

2. diabetic patients, yam in the polysaccharide helps regulate sugar metabolism, slowing down the absorption of blood sugar, with yam instead of part of the staple food is a very good practice, while doing the staple food coarse and fine matching.

3. people who want to control their weight, yam is rich in soluble dietary fiber, will help you increase the sense of satiety, and energy is relatively low, with yam instead of rice buns for weight control is a very good aid.

Although yams are good, don't eat them like this

1. deep-fried, fried, yam's oil absorption is very strong, made into fried yam slices, plucked yam becomes unhealthy and easy to get fat, and is not good for blood sugar.

2. the yam as a snack, eat a regular meal and then eat extra yam as a meal and snack or yam as a vegetable to eat, so you will be too much intake of increased energy is not conducive to blood sugar control.

3. Watch out for flavorings, especially yam puree adding overly sweet strawberry sauce, blueberry sauce, or mayonnaise to increase energy and sugar.

Yam in the eyes of most people is a vegetable, you can add some meat directly stewed, or washed and steamed to eat. In fact, this practice is not the correct way to eat yam, yam is not a vegetable, if the yam as a vegetable to eat, the body may have problems.

Yam is not actually a vegetable, but belongs to the potato food group along with potato, taro and sweet potato. Potato foods are characterized by a high starch content and also contain some dietary fibre at the same time. These foods, if consumed as vegetables without a reduction in the intake of staple foods, will cause an increase in carbohydrate intake. For diabetics, it is undoubtedly worse, after the meal will rise quickly in a short period of time, is not conducive to the regulation of blood sugar; and for those who want to lose weight, I'm afraid that this weight loss program will be difficult to achieve, and may also increase on a few pounds.

When eating yams, it is important to note that yams are eaten as a staple food, while also reducing the intake of other staple foods. This method of eating yam as a staple food can slow down the rate of increase in blood sugar after meals, blood sugar will not appear big ups and downs. It is also because some of the dietary fiber contained in the yam can also increase satiety and reduce the amount of other foods eaten, which is conducive to weight control.

Maybe some friends will find, often eat some yam after their stool also become very smooth, constipation also disappeared. This is because the dietary fiber in the yam can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce the fecal matter in the intestinal tract to stay in time to promote defecation is conducive to the prevention of constipation.

The healthiness or otherwise of yams for your body depends largely on how you consume them. Remember one thing, yam is not a vegetable but a potato food, always remember to eat it as a staple food.

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Yam is also known as Chinese yam, Huayan yam.
[Family and Medicinal Part] This product is the rhizome of yam in the genus Dioscorea of the family Dioscoreaceae.
[Flavor and Meridian] Sweet, flat. Entering the lung and spleen meridians.
[Effects] Tonifying the spleen and stomach, benefiting the lung and kidney.
[Clinical application]

1、It is used for weak spleen and stomach, low food and body fatigue, diarrhea, and women's leucorrhoea.

Yam is flat and not dry, the role of gentle, a flat tonic for the spleen and stomach medicine, so no matter the spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency, can be applied. Clinically used to treat less tired or spleen diarrhea, often with ginseng, atractylodes, lentils and other complementary spleen and stomach products; treatment of leucorrhoea, often with gorgonians, atractylodes, poria, etc..

2, used for lung deficiency and chronic cough, kidney deficiency dreaming sperm slippage, frequent urination and so on.

Yam benefit lung qi, nourish lung yin, so it can be used for lung deficiency phlegm cough cough symptoms, such as lung yin deficiency symptoms, can be used with sasanqua, maitake, etc.; this product can benefit the kidney and astringent essence, such as kidney loss spermatorrhea, can be used with the ripened land, cornelian cherry, dragon bone, etc.; such as urination, it can be used with the Yizhi Ren, cuttlebone, etc.. In addition, this product is also suitable for thirst, and can be used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata and Radix Angelicae Sinensis.

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Dioscorea oppositaBoth a delicious ingredient and a high quality medicinal herbIt has been regarded as a medicinal and food product since ancient times.

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Yam meets ingredients with a delicate taste; with medicines, the five flavors blend.

Whether made into porridge, puree, paste, cake, or sauteed, roasted, braised, or stewed yams will be sweet,Nutrition with a difference。

strengthen the spleen and stomach

1, Yam and lentil porridge

【Application】Loose stools and emaciation caused by deficiency of spleen and stomach qi. (Can be eaten for breakfast)

[Ingredients] Fresh yam, white lentils, white rice 30 grams each, sugar appropriate amount.

[Method] First wash the yam, peeled and sliced, standby. White rice, white lentils cooked half-cooked, add the yam slices boiled together into porridge, add sugar can be eaten.

2. Yam and Lamb Congee

[Application] Acute and chronic enteritis caused by spleen deficiency.

[Ingredients] 500 grams each of yam and mutton, 250 grams of rice.

[Preparation method] mutton, yam boiled and researched into mud, broth with rice porridge.

3. Yam and Job's Tears Porridge

【Application】Spleen deficiency, poor appetite and dullness, abdominal distension and loose stools, weakness of limbs.

[Ingredients] 30 grams each of yam and Job's tears, 15 grams of lotus seed meat, 10 jujubes, 100 grams of round-grained rice, a small amount of sugar.

[Method] will be on the 4 drugs and round-grained rice together into the pot, add water 1000 grams, the first martial arts fire, after the fire boiled into a porridge, mixing people can be sugar.

4. Yangchunbai Snow Cake

【Application】It is suitable for people with spleen deficiency and loose stools. (For breakfast)

[Ingredients] fried yam, poria, Gorgon fruit, lotus seeds 125 grams each, rice, glutinous rice 500 grams each, sugar 100 grams.

[Preparation method] The above flavors into a fine powder, the medicine, rice steamed and mixed well, made of cakes, sun dry.

5. Beef, lotus seed and yam soup

【Application】Auxiliary dietary therapy for qi deficiency and blood deficiency after illness.

[Ingredients] 250 grams of beef, yam, lotus seeds, Poria, jujube, cumin 30 grams each, salt.

[Production] Poria into the medicine bag, the yam washed and sliced; beef washed and cut into pieces with lotus seeds into the pot, add the right amount of water, with a high fire until the beef is half-cooked when adding Poria bag and yam, jujube, cumin, stewed until the beef is cooked and rotten when the fire is complete.

nourish the Yin and tonify the kidneys

1, Chinese medicine sesame paste

【Application】 Yin deficiency of liver and kidney, weakness after illness, dry stools, early whitening of beard and hair.

[Ingredients] 15 grams of Chinese yam, 120 grams of black sesame, 60 grams of round-grained rice, 200 grams of fresh milk, 120 grams of rock sugar, 6 grams of rose sugar.

[Method] round-grained rice washed and soaked in water for 1 hour, fished out and drained, stir-fried incense; yam cut small particles; black sesame washed and drained, stir-fried incense. Then together in a pot, add milk, water mixing, grinding, filtering fine velvet, take the slurry to be used. Another pot with water, rock sugar, boil and dissolve, put the former slurry, stirring constantly, add rose sugar stirred into a paste, cooked from the pot. Take 1 small bowl in the morning and evening.

2. Turtle shell and kidney tonic soup

【Application】Soreness of waist and knees, spermatorrhea, dizziness due to deficiency of yin in liver and kidney.

[Ingredients] 1 turtle fish, Chinese yam, wolfberry 30 grams each, chasteberry, 15 grams of ripe earth.

[Preparation method] will turtle fish intestinal miscellaneous and through, claw clean, and all the medicine decoction until the meat is cooked, discard the medicine seasoning. Eat meat and drink soup.

3, yam and wolfberry stewed dog meat

【Application】Deficiency of essence and blood without ejaculation is especially suitable.

[Ingredients] 100 grams of yam and dog meat, 10 grams of wolfberry, green onion, ginger and seasonings.

[Method] will be hot iron pot, pour cooked lard, put cleaned dog meat, onion, ginger, stir fry for a moment, cook the right amount of wine, together with the casserole, put yam block, goji berries and chicken broth, with a small fire to cook for 2 hours, to the extent that the dog meat is rotten, add salt, monosodium glutamate, adjusted to become.

Nourishing Yin and moistening dryness (for diabetes)

1. Rabbit stewed with yam

[Application] Diabetes mellitus with thirst, weakness and emaciation.

[Ingredients] 1 rabbit, 100 grams of yam.

【Production】 Slaughter the rabbit, remove the hair, claws, internal organs, wash and cut pieces of yam with the stew until the rabbit meat is cooked rotten. Drink soup and eat rabbit meat.

2、猪胰烩山药

[Application] Diabetes mellitus with deficiency of yin in lung and stomach.

[Ingredients] 1 pig pancreas, 60 grams of dried yam.

[Method] will be washed pig pancreas boiled in water, dry yam powder, with pig pancreas soup service yam powder, 10 grams each time, 3 times a day. 1 pig pancreas service 2 days, 10 days for a course of treatment.

3. Yam and Kudzu Paste

[Application] All types of diabetes.

[Ingredients] 200 grams each of Chinese yam and Pueraria lobata, 100 grams of smallpox pollen, 10 grams of Luo Han Guo.

[Preparation method] The Chinese yam, Pueraria lobata, smallpox pollen washed and sliced, sun-dried or dried, research into a fine powder, sieve and mix, bottled spare. 2 times a day, each time to take 50 grams, with Luo Han Guo decoction water juice, mixed into a paste for consumption.

4, oat yam porridge

[Application] Diabetes.

[Composition] oat rice, yam 50 grams each, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, each appropriate amount.

[Method] oat rice washed with water 800 ml, boiling yam cut into small dices into the slow simmering into porridge, under the salt, monosodium glutamate, dripping sesame oil. Take it 1-2 times while it is hot.

5. Yam Cake

【Application】Diabetes

[Ingredients] 50 grams of Chinese yam, 100 grams of flour, 1 egg.

[Method] will be dried yam, after research and flour mix, egg knocked into the bowl and stirred, mixed into the yam flour, plus green onion, ginger, salt, sesame oil, and a little dough, into the pan fried into pancakes. Eat 2 times in the morning and 2 times in the evening with meals, or as a snack, split between morning and afternoon.

nourish Yin and moisten the lungs

1. Clams with Astragalus and Jujube

【Application】Emphysema

[Ingredients] 1 pair of dried clams, 100 grams of astragalus, 80 grams each of yam, lily of the valley and poria.

Dried clams and the above medicines are washed and roasted separately, and ground together. Served 3 times a day, 10-15 grams each time. Take with warm water.

2. Steamed yam with sugar cane juice

[Application] Chronic bronchitis.

[Ingredients] 60 grams of yam, 2000 milliliters of sugar cane juice.

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