"Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "It is appropriate to use it raw in nourishing yin drugs, and it is appropriate to fry spleen and lung drugs." "This belongs to food. Although the qi is warm but flat, it is the yin of spleen and lung. Therefore, it can moisten fur, grow muscles, taste sweet and salty, and benefit the kidney and strengthen yin. "
In the study of experimental arthritis rats, the water extract of Dioscorea opposita can significantly inhibit the denaturation of γ globulin by Cu2+,indicating that it has anti-arthritis effect. The water extract of Dioscorea opposita can also eliminate urinary protein and inhibit the production of mutant cells.
1, Buzhong Yiqi: Tiegun Yam is rich in 18 kinds of amino acids, 10 kinds of trace elements and other minerals, so it has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying the lung and kidney, tonifying the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and deficiency, consolidating the kidney and replenishing essence, and calming the nerves. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica has the functions of "invigorating the spleen and invigorating the mind".
2, thirst-quenching: This yam has the effect of quenching thirst: Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating fatigue and thirst (diabetes) often use yam alone, or combined with other drugs, the effect is better.
3. Health care: Because fresh yam is rich in vitamins, amino acids and minerals, it can prevent and treat abnormal lipid metabolism and arteriosclerosis, and also has a certain effect on maintaining the normal function of insulin, which has health care functions such as enhancing human immunity, benefiting the heart and calming the nerves, relieving cough and asthma, and delaying aging.
4, beauty: Yuan Dynasty spleen and stomach expert Li Gao said: "Cure dry skin with this thing to moisten it. "Li Shizhen wrote:" Chinese yam can moisten fur. "Chinese yam has a unique effect on nourishing skin, bodybuilding and beauty.
5, control the desire to eat: Yam is rich in protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids, bile alkali, 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.
6. Prevention of Spring Sleepiness: Yam has the function of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. Regular consumption can improve the body's immunity and enhance the phagocytosis of macrophages.
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Family: laying the foundation for tonic in autumn and winter. Eating yam before tonic in autumn and winter is more conducive to the absorption of tonic. Yam is a medicine for invigorating the middle energizer, which has the function of invigorating the spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for people with spleen and stomach weakness to eat before tonic. It is a good choice to boil 20 grams of yam, jujube and rice (half of japonica rice and half of glutinous rice) into porridge.
Female: benefiting qi, nourishing blood and warming hands and feet. Cold hands and feet often have a soft spot for women. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet are closely related to physical weakness, while yam black chicken soup and longan yam soup have good effects of tonifying middle warmer, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, which are especially suitable for patients with cold hands and feet.
Male: Prevent the recurrence of "old stomach trouble". Among the patients with "old stomach trouble", quite a few belong to ulcer disease, and autumn is the season when ulcer disease is easy to occur or recur. Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that allantoin contained in yam is helpful to the repair of gastric mucosa. Fresh yam can be made into yam lentil cake or millet yam cake, which can be eaten after steaming.
Old man: tonify the middle and replenish qi to prevent colds. Yam has the function of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. Therefore, patients with qi deficiency due to excessive sweating and repeated colds should moderately increase their intake of yam in autumn. Chinese yam can be fried, steamed and spun, and it can also be cooked with rice, millet and jujube.
Children: a good helper to prevent and treat diarrhea. August-1February is the frequent season for children's diarrhea, and it is more acceptable to treat diarrhea with yam powder. The specific method is: the yam is ground into powder and mixed with rice flour at the ratio of 1∶2, and it can be fed 2-3 times a day.
Yam has: 1, strong and beautiful; 2, tonic and anti-aging; 3, invigorating qi and nourishing blood; 4. Nourishing yin and tonifying yang; 5, strengthening the body and eliminating evil spirits
Yam is sweet in taste, cool and moist in nature, and enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. According to De Pei Ben Cao, it has the function of tonifying deficiency and benefiting damage. Chen Xiuyuan, a physician in Qing Dynasty, once explained the function of yam, saying that it is flat in the lung and sweet in taste, while the spleen controls blood and dominates the limbs. If the spleen is full of blood, it will not be hungry and the limbs will be swift. The lung governs the qi, and the lung is full of qi, which makes the man fit and the qi multiply; Because of its thick and sticky texture, it can tonify kidney and replenish essence, and the essence will strengthen yin and prolong life. Modern pharmacological studies suggest that yam contains saponins, glycoproteins, tannins, oxytocin, diosgenin, choline, starch, calcium, phosphorus and iron, which have the effect of inducing interferon and have a certain anti-aging material basis. It can be seen that Chinese yam can really tonify deficiency and cure damage, and prolong life.