In the spring and summer, Chinese medicine believes that "nourishing yang in spring and summer" should be based on foods that promote qi and stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Since there is no way to get rid of the habit of staying up late and eating midnight snacks in the short term, it is better to make changes in diet and take the first step of health preservation.
Yam, as a blind medicinal material, can be used as a staple food as well as a dish. In Compendium, it is recorded that yam can benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea, eliminate phlegm and saliva, and moisten fur. It can be said that it is necessary for health people!
How can yam be eaten? What are the taboos? This is to introduce yam for everyone.
Chinese medicine believes that yam can nourish the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and benefit the lungs, and tonify the kidney and astringent essence. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, lung deficiency, asthma and cough, kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, frequent urination, deficiency heat and thirst quenching. Fried yam with bran tonifies spleen and stomach. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, diarrhea, loose stool, and excessive leucorrhea.
According to the test results of Chinese yam by Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, among the 20 amino acids needed by human beings, Chinese yam contains 16.
Modern medical research shows that yam has pharmacological effects such as improving immune function, improving digestive function, lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat, resisting oxidation, delaying aging, resisting tumor, resisting mutation, promoting kidney regeneration and repairing, and regulating acid-base balance.
Yam has so many benefits, how can we eat it in our daily life? Try the following combinations.
1, stir-fried yam and auricularia auricula-tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting the lung
Material preparation:
400g of Chinese yam, 0/50g of water-borne fungus/kloc-0, 40g of vegetable oil, 0/teaspoon of refined salt, 0/teaspoon of monosodium glutamate/kloc-0, 0/teaspoon of cooking wine/kloc-0, 0.5 spoon of oyster sauce, appropriate amount of water starch and appropriate amount of shredded onion and ginger.
Practice:
Remove the fibrous roots of Chinese yam with fire, remove the epidermis with tools, clean, cut into trapezoidal sections, blanch for 30 seconds, take out and cool, cut into rhombic pieces, blanch for 30 seconds and cool for later use.
Clean the foamed auricularia auricula, tear it into small pieces, blanch it 1 min, take it out and cool it for later use.
Add vegetable oil to the pan, stir-fry shredded onion and ginger until fragrant, pour in oyster sauce, stir-fry yam and fungus, cook cooking wine, sprinkle with refined salt and monosodium glutamate, stir-fry evenly, thicken, pour in oil, take out of the pan and plate.
2, yam fried chicken-nourishing and keeping fit
Material preparation:
Chicken, yam, green beans, corn, cooking wine, chicken essence.
Practice:
Boil green beans and corn first, cut chicken into sections or pieces, and cut yam into sections.
Put oil in the pot, add chopped green onion, squeeze out chopped green onion oil, add chicken, add salt, sugar, cooking wine and thirteen spices to taste.
Add yam. Finally, add the boiled green beans and corn, stir-fry and plate.
3, yam rice-spleen tonic
Material preparation:
30g of yam, 30g of lotus seed, 30g of coix seed, 30g of lentils and 300g of japonica rice.
Practice:
Wash and chop yam, japonica rice, coix seed and lentils, peel lotus seeds, boil them in the heart, and then cook with japonica rice in a pot. Eat with the amount.
Suitable for people with spleen deficiency and diarrhea and loss of appetite.
4, yam Dangshen tea-spleen and stomach
Material preparation: 9 grams of yam, 9 grams of codonopsis pilosula and 9 grams of poria cocos, 0/2 grams of white lentils/kloc-,6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 6 grams of Amomum villosum and 6 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala (fried).
Practice: Boil all the herbs for tea.
Chinese medicine believes that people who are full of dampness or have excess evil and stagnation are forbidden to take yam.
1, constipation should not eat more.
Yam is hot, which belongs to warming and nourishing food, and it is rich in starch. If constipation people eat too much yam, it will easily cause dry stool and increase the difficulty of defecation. It is recommended that patients who are prone to constipation eat yam as little as possible.
2. It is not advisable to eat more when eating hot pot.
Modern people like to eat hot pot, but yam itself is hot, and it is easy to get angry with spicy ingredients, which leads to dry throat and sore throat and acne.
3. People with diabetes should not eat more.
Yam itself is rich in starch, and excessive consumption of yam by diabetic patients is easy to cause blood sugar fluctuations. People with diabetes should have a balanced diet, and try to have a complete range of cereals, meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits, and take in balanced nutrition while ensuring the total calories.
4, prostate cancer patients and breast cancer patients should not eat.
Yam contains dioscin, which can promote human body to synthesize hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, but it is not suitable for men with prostate cancer and women with breast cancer.
Finally, I would like to share a cold knowledge with you: the source of the name of yam is yam. During the Tang Daizong period, the word "Dioscorea opposita" was pronounced the same as the word "Yu" by Emperor Li Yu, so in order to avoid taboo, it was changed to "potato medicine". In the Song Dynasty, the word "potato" sounded the same as the word "Shu" in Zhao Shu, Song Yingzong, and the potato medicine was renamed Yam, the name of which has been used ever since.