With the improvement of living standards, more and more people pay attention to health preservation and healthier diet. Chinese yam is often seen on the dining table. It is not only a multifunctional food, but also can help us to digest, strengthen the spleen and tonify deficiency, beauty beauty and tonify deficiency. Let's take a look at the efficacy and function of yam today.

What are the effects and functions of yam?

1. Spleen and stomach, digestion.

Yam is rich in amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is very beneficial to the digestion and absorption of ud by our spleen and stomach. It is not only a medicated diet that can tonify our spleen and stomach, but also a dual-purpose food. And even people with spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency can eat it. So it is very suitable for people with stomach problems.

2. Weakness, lack of food, fatigue and diarrhea.

Yam contains a variety of nutrients, which has the functions of strengthening body, nourishing kidney and benefiting essence. Generally speaking, symptoms such as nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, leukorrhagia by women and frequent urination can be taken.

Step 3: benefit lung and relieve cough

Yam contains saponin and mucus, which can lubricate and moisten dryness, so it can benefit lung qi, nourish lung yin and treat lung deficiency with excessive phlegm and persistent cough.

Nutrition and health care function

Yam is rich in nutrition, containing protein 1.5g, carbohydrate 14.4g, calcium 14mg, phosphorus 42mg, iron 0.3mg, carotene 0.02mg, thiamine 0.08mg, riboflavin 0.02mg, nicotinic acid 0.3mg and ascorbic acid 0.3mg. In addition, there are protein, amino acids, polyphenol oxidase and other nutrients. It can induce interferon production and enhance human immune function.

There is also an important nutrient in yam, namely dioscin, which is called natural DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone). These ingredients help to synthesize various hormones in the body and are called the mother of hormones. It can promote the metabolism of skin epidermal cells, enhance the moisturizing function of skin, and also help to improve physical fitness.

Yam is rich in cellulose, choline, mucin and other components, which can supply a lot of mucin needed by human body, and it is a mixture of polysaccharide and protein, which has a special health care effect on human body. This mucin can prevent the fat deposition of cardiovascular system, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels and prevent the premature occurrence of atherosclerosis. At the same time, it can also reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation and avoid obesity; Moreover, this mucopolysaccharide combined with inorganic salts can also form bones, make cartilage elastic, and help prevent senile fractures.

These are some functions and effects of yam. After reading the above introduction, I believe everyone has a good understanding of these. We can often cook some dishes about yam in our daily life, which can recuperate our health and meet our requirements for food.