Chinese yam is a perennial twining herb, which can be used as both Chinese medicine and vegetables. Yam is not strict with climate, but it likes warm and humid, avoids water accumulation and is afraid of drought. It is suitable for planting on sandy loam with rich and loose soil layer and good drainage. Crops planted with reed heads are harvested in the same year, and those planted with yam eggs (Reiyoshi) are harvested in the second year. Yam producing areas are widely distributed, with cultivation in Hebei and Shandong in the north and Guangxi and Guangdong in the south.
Chinese yam, according to Chinese medicine, has many functions, such as strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lung, consolidating the kidney and benefiting essence. It also has a certain therapeutic effect on cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, leukorrhagia and frequent urination. Lotus root, on the other hand, is rich in vitamin C and minerals, so it has the effects of enriching blood, helping sleep, cooling and annealing, stopping bleeding and removing stasis, and because of the comprehensive effect of lotus root in human body, it can also help to eliminate nerve fatigue, autonomic nervous disorder, insomnia and other symptoms.
Chinese yam has the functions of invigorating spleen, removing dampness, invigorating qi, benefiting lung, strengthening kidney and benefiting essence. Chinese yam contains soluble fiber, which can delay the emptying of food in the stomach and control the increase of blood sugar after meals.
It can also help digestion and lower blood sugar. Used for diabetic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and frequent urination.
controlling appetite
as a highly nutritious food, yam contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids, choline, allantoin and so on. Among them, yam soap, an important nutritional component, is a precursor substance for synthesizing female hormones, which has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying yang and enhancing metabolism; The mucilage and digestive enzymes of polysaccharide and protein contained in fresh tuber can prevent cardiovascular fat deposition and contribute to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.
What's more worth mentioning is that Chinese yam is a natural slimming food for MM people. It contains enough fiber, and after eating, it will feel full, thus controlling the desire to eat. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so you can safely eat more without worrying about getting fat.
It seems that there are no side effects. Of course, you can't eat too much of anything. Just eat it in moderation.
winter tonic can't be done with ginseng and bird's nest in one pot. Be careful, instead, it will make you feel weak. In fact, according to the traditional way of keeping in good health, after entering autumn and winter, not only medicine is advocated, but also there is a saying that "medicine is better than food." Because from a nutritional point of view, many foods do contain extremely rich nutrition, and their therapeutic and health care effects on the human body are absolutely irreplaceable by medicinal materials.
It's a pity that for the MM who are "figure first", they immediately frown when they hear "food supplement", and they are afraid that the waist has been quietly increased by two sizes before winter-why do you have to eat big fish and meat to be called "supplement"? Don't worry, some food supplement materials can definitely belong to "zero fat".
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"A medicine cannot judge a book by its appearance"
The appearance of Chinese yam is not surprising, with an earthy brown skin and a thin cylindrical shape. The meat is white and firm, and it tastes slightly sour and sticky when chewed. However, according to ancient records, eating more yam has the functions of "hearing and improving eyesight" and "not being hungry and prolonging life", which is very beneficial to human health, and it is also circulated among the people that yam has obvious effects on conditioning physiological ability, weak physique after illness, postpartum aftercare for women and strengthening children's physique, so it is called "food medicine".
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controlling appetite
as a highly nutritious food, yam contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids, choline, allantoin and so on. Among them, yam soap, an important nutritional component, is a precursor substance for synthesizing female hormones, which has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying yang and enhancing metabolism; The mucilage and digestive enzymes of polysaccharide and protein contained in fresh tuber can prevent cardiovascular fat deposition and contribute to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.
What's more worth mentioning is that Chinese yam is a natural slimming food for MM people. It contains enough fiber, and after eating, it will feel full, thus controlling the desire to eat. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so you can safely eat more without worrying about getting fat.
It is not difficult to preserve
Fresh yam is easy to oxidize with oxygen in the air, and it will brown when it comes into contact with iron or metal, so it is best to cut yam with a bamboo knife or a plastic blade, draw lines on the skin first, and then peel it into sections by hand. Incision is easy to oxidize, so you can soak it in rice wine first, then blow dry it with a hair dryer to promote wound healing, then wrap it in a napkin, wrap several layers of newspapers around it and put it in a cool corner.
yam is also known as yam, sweet potato and yam. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", yam is mild, sweet and non-toxic, which is beneficial to kidney-qi, strengthening bones and muscles, strengthening spleen and stomach, stopping diarrhea, resolving phlegm and saliva, moistening fur, and treating spermatorrhea and amnesia. It is an excellent health food and traditional Chinese medicine material, and has been widely used as a medical tonic in Southeast Asia since ancient times.
n kinds of food schemes for yam
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As a food, yam is also a good ingredient. There are many cooking methods, and different methods have different nourishing effects. It depends on how you choose.
1. Yam wine
Formula: 35g of fresh yam, 2ml of yellow rice wine and proper amount of honey.
preparation method: firstly, wash, peel and slice the yam for later use; Then pour 6 ml of yellow wine into a casserole and boil it, add yam, and slowly add the remaining wine after boiling; After the yam is cooked, take it out, add honey to the wine juice and boil it. Features: invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, mainly treating fatigue cough, phlegm-dampness cough, spleen deficiency cough or diarrhea, frequent urination and other symptoms. Attention should be paid to: cough due to exogenous factors should not be taken.
2. Rock sugar yam
Formula: .75kg yam, 3/4 bowls of rock sugar and 5-6 bowls of clear water. Preparation method: peel off and cut into cubes, add rock sugar and clear water, boil over high fire, and then cook over low fire (about 4 minutes) to serve. Features: Chinese yam is soft and sweet, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, removing dampness, benefiting lung and kidney, benefiting essence and invigorating qi.
3. Chinese yam medicated diet soup
Formula: 5g of Chinese yam, 1g of Polygonatum odoratum, 1g of Ophiopogon japonicus, 5g of Lycium barbarum, and 1 pigeon. Preparation method: 1. First, fry the boiled pigeon meat in a pot, and then add broth or boiled water; After the water is boiled, fish the meat into the soup pot, then put the cleaned herbs into the pot, pour the soup into the pot after cooking, and cook it with slow fire for 9 minutes; Add salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and other seasonings before cooking, and this soup will be done. Characteristics: Chinese medicine believes that the sky is yang and the earth is yin, and pigeons absorb a lot of natural yang, so pigeon meat can treat physical weakness caused by kidney essence deficiency; The combination of yam, Polygonatum odoratum and Ophiopogon japonicus can nourish lung yin, and this soup is especially suitable for patients after a serious illness.
when you say yam bean, you mean the pearl bud of Chinese yam!
Chinese yam, whose scientific name is "Dioscorea opposita". Perennial twining vines. There are often bulbils (also called "Reiyoshi") in the axils of leaves, which can be used for reproduction and food.