It is not only good for the stomach, but also helps to lower blood sugar, so it is an ideal food for diabetic patients.

Benefits of drinking yam juice:

1. Regulating the spleen and stomach

Yam contains amylase and polyphenol oxidase, which is helpful for digestion. Many Chinese patent medicines that help digestion contain Chinese yam, which is a kind of plant that can be used both as medicine and food. People with weak spleen and stomach, frequent indigestion and loss of appetite are suitable to eat Chinese yam.

2. Benefiting lung and nourishing kidney < P > The mucus in Chinese yam has a moisturizing effect, which is helpful to nourish lung yin and relieve cough for people with lung deficiency who often cough. In addition, people with kidney deficiency, frequent urination and leucorrhea can eat some yam to help nourish the kidney.

3. Prolonging life span

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are an important factor affecting the life span of middle-aged and elderly people, and yam has a certain organizational effect on the precipitation of blood lipids and has a certain effect on preventing cardiovascular diseases. In addition, yam can also lower blood sugar and help middle-aged and elderly people to prolong their life.

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Taboos for eating Chinese yam:

1. Avoid eating with alkaline drugs

After eating alkaline drugs, it is best not to eat too much Chinese yam, otherwise these alkaline foods may make amylase in Chinese yam ineffective and have no nourishing effect. Common alkaline foods include baking soda tablets. Similarly, if yam is added to porridge, you can't add edible baking soda.

2. People who love hot pot eat less

Although yam is warm, it is also a tonic. When we eat hot pot, even if we don't eat spicy soup base and spicy seasoning, we will eat a lot of mutton, which will make yam stimulate the effect of these hot ingredients and seasonings and easily make people get angry. Therefore, people who like to eat hot pot or ordinary people must eat less yam after eating hot pot.

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