Chinese yam, according to Chinese medicine, has many functions, such as strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lung, strengthening 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.
Yam has the effects of invigorating spleen, removing dampness, invigorating qi, benefiting lung, consolidating kidney and benefiting essence. 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.
Control appetite for food
As a 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 yam is a natural slimming food for MM. 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 ginseng bird's nest. Be careful, it will make you feel weak and 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 "the first figure", 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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"All that glitters is not medicine"
The appearance of yam is not surprising, with a tan skin and a thin cylindrical shape. The meat is white and firm, and the taste is slightly sour and sticky when chewing. 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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Control appetite for food
As a 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 yam is a natural slimming food for MM. 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.
Preservation is not difficult.
Fresh yam is easy to oxidize with oxygen in the air, and it will brown when it comes into contact with iron or metal. Therefore, 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 gourmet schemes of 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, depending on how you choose.
1, yam wine
Formula: 350g of fresh yam, 2000ml of yellow rice wine, and proper amount of honey.
Method: Wash, peel and slice the yam for later use; Then pour 600 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: 0.75kg of Chinese yam, 3/4 bowls of crystal sugar and 5-6 bowls of clear water. Method: Peel the skin and cut it into cubes. Add the crystal sugar and clear water and boil it with strong fire, then cook it with low fire (about 40 minutes) for food. 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. Yam medicated diet soup
Formula: 5g of yam, Polygonatum odoratum 1 0g, Ophiopogon japonicus 1 0g, 5g of Lycium barbarum, pigeon1recipe:1.First, put the blanched pigeon meat in a pot and fry it, 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.