"Doctor Zhu, I checked online and compared one who found his spleen and stomach bad. So I began to eat a yam every day according to the advice of online health bloggers. Do you think so? " The patient asked me.
"no!" I said.
"Why? It is said on the Internet that yam is good for invigorating spleen and kidney. Eating yam every day is good for your health. " The patient insisted on asking questions.
"Really can't, your body is not suitable for. I will tell you in the clinic, are you optimistic? " I was so busy that I forgot the patient.
A month later, the patient came to the clinic for a follow-up visit and said, "Dr. Zhu, I have flatulence and my stool is very bad." It is very dry and hard. What do you think is going on? "
"I remember, I remember telling you not to eat yam? Have you eaten? " I asked.
"Dr. Zhu, it's not that I don't listen to you, because people say yam is good, and I still eat a little every day." The patient faltered and tunnel.
"The somebody else say you believe, the doctor said you don't believe, ah ~ ~ ~! Do people need to be responsible for you if they say something wrong? " I asked, "But I was wrong. I am responsible for you."
"... I don't want to believe it either, but it's really agreed online! "The patient is still very persistent.
"All right, you stop the yam first. I took the time to talk about the taboo of yam! " I said.
The origin of yam name
Let's start with the name of yam. Before the Tang Dynasty, there was no medicinal material named "Huai Yam" in medical books, but it was called "Yam". Then why do we call it yam today?
That's because in the Tang Daizong era, Li Yu, the ninth Yellow Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, changed "yam" into "potato medicine" according to the system of the ancient emperors. But that's not all. After Song Yingzong Zhao Shu, the fifth emperor of the Song Dynasty, ascended the throne, he changed the name of "Potato Medicine" to "Yam" out of taboo, and the name of "Yam" has been used ever since.
Because I see that bloggers often confuse yam with sweet potato on the Internet, I would like to explain it specifically.
Why are there so many different yams?
After explaining that yam is yam, you will find that there are many varieties of yam, including yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, guangshan medicine and so on. Regardless of the edible yam on the market, only the yam of Chinese herbal medicine is explained.
Yam, also called Huai Yam in Shanghai, refers to the origin of authentic medicinal materials. There was Huaiqing House in ancient times, and the yam produced here is of the best quality, so it is called Huaiyan, which is equivalent to wen county, Mengxian, Wuzhi and Qinyang in Jiaozuo, Henan Province today. So yam is a general term, and everything else is the difference of origin or variety. If you need medicine, it is recommended to buy decoction pieces by prescription.
Chinese medicine suggests eating yam every day?
Yam has always been a commonly used medicinal material in Chinese medicine, which is indispensable in the treatment of strengthening the spleen. For example, Shen Ling Baizhu Powder is also very important in tonifying the kidney. For example, Liuwei Dihuang Pill is basically known to all ages. But in fact, few people mentioned that yam can actually relieve asthma. The most famous modern doctor Zhang Xichun used this method. Because asthma is more serious, most people rarely contact it. This also shows that yam is very medicinal, so the side effects will be great for people who are not suitable for it.
Online articles and videos often have various health porridge, health high-speed mixer formula and health herbal formula, among which yam is a frequent visitor. However, these self-media contents all have a common problem, that is, they emphasize their therapeutic effects and intentionally or unintentionally ignore the contraindications of medication.
At present, decoction is the main treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, and yam is also decoction, so even if there is yam in the prescription, doctors will not have obvious side effects if they take it for a long time as the compatibility is proper. But if ordinary people eat a yam every day, something will go wrong.
Yam is a tonic, and its medicinal properties are similar. Therefore, people with dry stools, that is, hard stools, cannot take medicine. Moreover, people with greasy tonic and poor spleen and stomach transport function are not suitable, such as eating bloating and indigestion. Don't eat yam at this time. This is just medicine and soup.
If you eat yam every day, the side effects of yam convergence and nourishing will be more obvious. This is why some people eat yam every day, but their spleen and stomach are not good.
Therefore, Chinese medicine does not strongly recommend that you eat yam without taboo, so be sure to pay attention!
The descendants of Zhu's internal medicine have come to sum up again!
Yam is a good thing, but good things should also pay attention to ways and means. For example, wild ginseng is also a good thing, but can you eat one every day? I think ordinary people know that it's no good, but I don't have any scruples if I switch to yam? Is it because ginseng is expensive and yam is cheap? Medicinal materials only have different medicinal properties, and there is no distinction between high and low.
Don't use a high-speed blender for everything. It seems that a high-speed blender is omnipotent, and undigested food is easy to digest when it is broken. In fact, traditional Chinese medicine need not be boiled, just put it in a high-speed blender. Actually, it's not good. We'll talk about high-speed mixers separately later.
To sum up, it is ok to eat yam as a dish occasionally, but don't eat it as a health care medicine every day. People who don't adapt for a long time will have other physical problems.