The answer is yes. The effect and function of yam is to lose weight. It contains enough fiber, and people will feel full after eating it, thus controlling their desire to eat. It is a natural slimming food. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so people can safely eat more without worrying about getting fat.

Efficacy and function of Chinese yam

Yam, sweet in taste, flat in nature, enters lung, spleen and kidney meridians. Tonify spleen, nourish lung, strengthen kidney and benefit essence. It can be used for treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, anorexia and edema, cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, thirst quenching, nocturnal emission, leukorrhagia, frequent urination due to kidney deficiency, and external treatment of carbuncle and scrofula.