Six health-preserving effects of Chinese yam: 1, nourishing and strengthening the body, and delaying aging. Studies at home and abroad have confirmed that yam can promote the brain to secrete dehydroepiandrosterone. Taking dehydroepiandrosterone can improve sleep, make people feel happy, energetic, look young and have a good appetite. To achieve the effect of strengthening the body and delaying aging.
Yam has the functions of nourishing cells, strengthening endocrine, nourishing and strengthening human hematopoietic function, inducing interferon, improving human immune function and improving disease resistance. It plays an important role in delaying aging.
Yam is rich in trace elements beneficial to human body, and has the functions of enriching blood, strengthening brain, tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
2, Yiqi Yangyin, Zhike Pingchuan Yam has the effect of tonifying lung and benefiting qi, nourishing yin and relieving cough, regulating lung and resolving phlegm, and can treat lung deficiency, deficiency of both qi and yin, shortness of breath, chronic cough, shortness of breath and so on. Yam has the effects of nourishing, inducing interferon, enhancing immunity, regulating endocrine, relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma, and can be used for treating chronic tracheitis.
3, astringent intestines and diarrhea yam is sweet, nourishing but not greasy, fragrant but not dry, and has a good effect on spleen deficiency diarrhea. Yam is a soothing, nourishing and strong medicine, which can strengthen the spleen, benefit the stomach and widen the intestine, and has a good effect on chronic diarrhea with gastrointestinal dysfunction.
Yam can nourish yin, promote diuresis, lubricate and converge. It can be used for the treatment of fecal diarrhea, because it is beneficial to urination and convenient, so that water can be discharged from the bladder and the moisture in the intestine is reduced, so the symptoms of diarrhea are alleviated.
Yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach, relax the intestines and stop diarrhea, because yam can calm the spleen and strengthen the function of invigorating qi and transporting spleen, so it can stop diarrhea.
4, tonic and hypoglycemic, treatment of diabetes Yam is a top-grade tonic, which has a good effect on treating diabetes. The reason for this is the following：
1. Yam is mild in taste, neither cold nor dry, and can tonify the five internal organs, so it is an important medicine for treating deficiency. Diabetes is mainly caused by yin deficiency and dryness-heat, which can quench thirst. Eating yam is good for yin, so yam can treat diabetes.
② The glycoprotein contained in yam can be hydrolyzed into protein and sugar in vivo, which can lower blood sugar. Amylase contained in yam can help food digestion and hydrolyze starch into glucose. Therefore, it has a certain curative effect on diabetes, and people with weak stomach can also eat it.
(3) Yam can not only tonify qi, but also nourish yin, which is not stagnant, nourishing but not greasy, invigorating spleen and benefiting stomach yin. It is an important medicine for nourishing the spleen and stomach, suitable for long-term consumption by diabetic patients, and has obvious curative effect on mild diabetes.
5. As a kind of highly nutritious food, Chinese yam contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids, choline and allantoin. Among them, yam soap, an important nutritional component, is the precursor of synthesizing female hormones, which has the functions of nourishing yin, strengthening yang and enhancing metabolism. Dopamine in yam can dilate blood vessels and improve blood circulation. Improve human digestive function, enhance physical fitness, and improve skin's moisturizing feeling and color. Yam is MM's natural slimming food, which contains enough fiber to make you feel full after eating, thus controlling your appetite. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so you can eat more without worrying about getting fat. Yam is MM's natural slimming food, which contains enough fiber to make you feel full after eating, thus controlling your appetite. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so you can eat more without worrying about getting fat.
Of course, yam is not only very useful for MM, but also has the same effect on middle-aged and elderly male and female friends. Middle-aged and elderly people often eat yam, which can make them look young, make their skin ruddy and shiny, and make them look youthful. For ichthyosis patients, long-term consumption of yam can make the skin white, smooth and moist.
6. Enhance the digestion and absorption function of human body, and treat anorexia and dyspepsia. Yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach, make the spleen and stomach healthy, enhance the digestion and absorption function of the human body, stimulate appetite and enhance physical fitness. It has a good curative effect on anorexia, anorexia and dyspepsia in children.
In a word, yam is both edible and medicinal, and has high medicinal value. In addition to the above six functions, it can also prevent and treat colds, dizziness, insomnia, ulcers, nephritis, infantile malnutrition, leukorrhagia, impotence, white turbidity and so on. Clinical application can treat more than 200 diseases, and it is also an ideal health food with great prospects.