Wild yam is a kind of mountain fire that people often collect in the mountains, and it is also a valuable mountain products. When the wild yam with good quality is sold in the market, the price per catty is about 15~20 yuan. The price of relatively large wild yam will be slightly higher. If you can dig a few hundred kilograms of wild yam, you can get thousands of dollars at a time. This is a relatively large income for the mountain people.
Wild yam has both edible value and medicinal value. Slices can be used as medicine after drying. Chinese herbal medicines that can invigorate qi, relieve physical weakness and tonify liver and kidney can be taken together with other Chinese medicines. But when you want to use it to treat some diseases, you must consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and you can't use it blindly, otherwise it will have adverse effects on the human body and may delay the illness.
The edible value of wild yam is particularly high. The roots of this plant are rich in plant polysaccharides and saponins, and also contain a variety of amino acids and minerals. When we eat it as health food, we can quickly absorb these nutrients contained in it, which has obvious nourishing effect on human body, can promote the fitness of human immune cells and enhance human immune function. There are some differences between wild yam and cultivated yam. Its growth period is longer, its nutritional value is higher than that of artificially planted yam, and its edible effect is better.
Wild yam is also rich in plant protein and various active ingredients, and even contains some natural mucus, which can nourish the spleen and stomach and improve digestive function after people eat it. Wild yam is also rich in unsaturated fatty acids and flavonoids, which has a good protective effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Regular consumption can prevent the increase of blood pressure and blood lipid, reduce the incidence of diabetes, improve people's health level, slow down the aging speed of human body, and play a very positive role in maintaining human health.