Although yam is a kind of food, it is also a kind of medicinal material, which can nourish yin and tonify kidney. This medicinal material was found in Liuwei Dihuang Pill. In addition, eating yam regularly can help us treat hypertension and diabetes, and also help us relieve neurasthenia and low back pain.

2, delay aging

According to the latest scientific research, yam can effectively reduce the activity of some special enzymes in the body, which can accelerate the aging of the body. Regular consumption of yam has a very good nourishing effect and will help us prolong life.

3. Anti-tumor

Polysaccharide in yam can stimulate and regulate our immune system, so it is often used as a health care drug to enhance immunity. Yam can also strengthen the phagocytosis of white blood cells, effectively enhance our body's resistance, help us to sterilize and diminish inflammation, and even help us fight tumors.

Step 4 treat skin diseases

Yam contains a special substance called allantoin, which has anesthetic and analgesic effects and can promote our skin growth. In addition, yam also has anti-inflammatory and bacteriostatic effects, and is often used to treat chapped hands and feet, ichthyosis and various keratotic skin diseases.

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taboo

1, diabetics should not eat more.

Although mucin contained in yam can effectively lower blood sugar, yam is a kind of root food with high starch content. Eating too much yam is likely to lead to high blood sugar in diabetic patients, especially after meals. Therefore, diabetics should not eat too much yam at a time, but we can use yam instead of some staple foods, so that we can kill two birds with one stone.

2. People who love hot pot

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 spicy ingredients and seasonings, which will easily make people get angry. So people who like to eat hot pot or ordinary people must eat less yam after eating hot pot.

3, avoid eating with alkaline drugs.

After eating alkaline drugs, it is best not to eat too much yam, otherwise these alkaline foods may make the amylase in yam ineffective and unable to nourish. Common alkaline foods are baking soda tablets. Similarly, if yam is added to the porridge, you can't add baking soda.

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