Yam is a common Chinese herbal medicine, which has high medicinal value and can bring many benefits to human body. The following is some information I have compiled for you about the' sexual taste and meridian tropism' effect of yam. Let's take a look!
The effect of the nature and taste of yam on the meridian tropism 1 the nature and taste of yam are sweet and flat. Enter spleen, lung and spleen meridian.
Efficacy of yam: benefiting qi and nourishing yin, nourishing spleen and lung, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.
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Efficacy and application of Chinese herbal medicine yam
First, the effect of Chinese medicine yam in eliminating edema
Chinese medicine yam can adjust the problems of body edema, difficulty in sweating, etc. Chinese medicine yam is soft, can gently repair the water circulation system and discharge it, and is not easy to cause pressure on internal organs in the opposite direction. Chinese herbal medicine yam has a good effect, and it is especially suitable for people with various physical qualities, whether it is cold or damp heat constitution.
Second, the anti-cancer effect of Chinese medicine yam
Chinese yam can prevent cancer, which requires the body to ingest a variety of vitamins and carbohydrates. Both of them exist in Chinese yam, which can resist tumor cells, destroy the root tissues of tumor cells and dissolve oxygen free radicals that cause air oxidation in the body. Therefore, taking more Chinese medicine yam can easily protect physical and mental health and promote the awakening of immune ability.
Third, the effect of Chinese medicine yam on nourishing the heart and calming the nerves
Chinese yam is very comfortable, and it is inevitable to be upset when you are too tired or stressed at work. In serious cases, it is very easy to lose sleep and sleep is not high, which will affect your physical and mental health in the long run. Chinese medicine yam can relieve tension and anxiety, and give it to you easily.
The effect of Chinese yam on meridian tropism 2.
Sweet, flat; Enter lung, spleen and kidney meridians.
nutritive value
It contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose and other nutrients. The content of trace elements, especially potassium, is high, and it also contains many digestive enzymes such as starch glucoamylase and amylase. The vitamin content is less, and it contains almost no carotene.
The efficacy of yam:
Nourishing kidney and essence, benefiting lung and relieving cough, lowering blood sugar, invigorating spleen and stomach, helping digestion, strengthening kidney and essence, improving hearing and eyesight, and prolonging life. It is mainly used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, listlessness, loss of appetite, expectoration and cough, and soreness of waist and knees.
Yam, also known as yam, is sweet and astringent; It also takes the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It is known as "replenishing the three jiao qi and yin" and has the characteristics of both replenishing and astringent. As early as "Shennong Herbal Classic", it was recorded that Chinese yam can "tonify the middle energizer, replenish qi and grow muscles". Long-term service is smart, and the light body is not hungry. " Li Shizhen also said in Compendium of Materia Medica that it can "benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea and dysentery, eliminate phlegm and saliva, and moisten fur."
The common varieties used as medicine are "yam" and "yam". The former is produced in Henan, which is regarded as an authentic medicinal material, while the latter is mainly produced in Jiangxi and other places, which is a general medicinal material.
The role of yam:
1. Nourishing and fitness, delaying aging
Studies at home and abroad have confirmed that Chinese yam can promote the brain to secrete dehydroepiandrosterone. Taking dehydroepiandrosterone can improve sleep, make people feel happy, full of vitality, look young, make people have a good appetite, etc., and obtain the effects of strengthening body building and delaying aging.
Yam has the functions of nourishing cells, strengthening endocrine, tonifying and strengthening the body's hematopoietic function, inducing interferon, improving the body's immune function, improving disease resistance, etc., and plays an important role in delaying the aging process.
Yam is rich in trace elements beneficial to human body, and has the functions of nourishing blood, nourishing brain, tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
2. astringe the bowels to stop diarrhea
Yam is sweet, nourishing but not greasy, fragrant but not dry, and has a good effect on diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. Yam is a soothing, nourishing and strengthening medicine, which strengthens the spleen, benefits the stomach and broadens the intestine, and has a good effect on chronic diarrhea with gastrointestinal dysfunction.
Yam can nourish yin and promote diuresis, lubricate and astringent. It can be used to treat fecal diarrhea, because it is beneficial to urinate and convenient, so that water can be discharged from the bladder and the water in the intestine is reduced, so the symptoms of diarrhea are reduced.
Yam can stop diarrhea by invigorating the spleen, benefiting the stomach and widening the intestine, because yam can calm the spleen and strengthen the function of invigorating qi and transporting spleen, so it can stop defecation.