Yellow ginger, scientific name shield leaf Dioscorea (Dioscorea Zingiberensis C.H. Wright) also known as, fire head root.

Name Examination Pillow Root, Yellow Ginger, Yellow Ginger, Yellow Ginseng, Dioscorea Zingiberensis, Wild Ginger

The properties and flavors are sweet, bitter, and cool. This species is a poisonous plant included in the Chinese Plant Atlas database, and its toxicity is reflected in folklore that the rhizome has a tonic effect, but overconsumption can cause dizziness, blurred vision and other symptoms of poisoning; the pounded rhizome can poison fish.

Chinese name: Huaibai yam

Latin name: Common Yam Rhizome

Alias: mountain mushroom

Taste and flavor: taste sweet, sex flat. Attributed to the spleen, lung, kidney meridian.

Effects: tonifying the spleen and nourishing the stomach, generating fluids and benefiting the lungs, tonifying the kidney and astringing the essence.

There are two names for yam and Chinese yam, but there is an essential difference between the two. The Chinese yam should refer to the yam produced in present-day Jiangsu and Anhui, while the Huai yam refers to the yam produced in the Jiaozuo area of present-day Henan Province. Huai yam stems are usually purplish red, the main treatment of spleen deficiency, less food, more than a long time diarrhea, have a spleen and stomach, the production of fluids and benefit the lungs, tonifying the kidney and astringent effect.