Yam has the effects of nourishing and strengthening, helping digestion, astringing deficient sweating and stopping diarrhea, and is mainly used to treat chronic enteritis such as diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cough due to lung deficiency, diabetes, short and red urine, nocturnal emission, female leukorrhagia and dyspepsia. Among all the practices of yam, fried yam is the most nutritious and delicious. Sliced yam or stir-fried in silk pot. Due to the short heating time, the loss of nutrients, especially vitamin C, is less. For example, vegetarian dishes include yam fried fungus, tomato fried yam, yam fried pork slices, yam fried kidney flowers, yam fried shrimps, yam fried diced chicken and so on. People with qi deficiency, sweating and repeated colds can eat yam in autumn to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi. It is best to cook porridge with rice, millet and jujube. The dry weather is easy to hurt the lungs and body fluids. When you have a dry mouth and cough, you can eat fried yam to nourish yin and moisten the lungs. Deficiency of kidney qi is manifested as weakness of waist and knees, weakness of lower limbs, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, dizziness, forgetfulness and frequent urination. You can drink mutton and yam soup.

It should be noted that yam has astringent effect, so it is taboo for people with colds, dry stools and gastrointestinal stagnation. In addition, persimmon and pork liver should not be eaten with yam. Cooking can't add alkali, so as not to destroy the nutrients. Saponin in yam skin can cause allergies, so it is best to peel and cook it. Yam should be soaked in salt water immediately after slicing to prevent oxidation and blackening. Yam itself is a tonic. When eating hot pot, plus the role of spicy ingredients, flat yam has a certain amount of heat and is easy to get angry. So when eating hot pot, it is best to eat less yam. Please press the QR code to post it on the platform of China Chinese Herbal Medicine Association.