Chinese yam, according to traditional Chinese medicine, has many functions, such as invigorating spleen and lung, strengthening kidney and benefiting essence. It also has a certain therapeutic effect on cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, increased leucorrhea and frequent urination. Lotus root is rich in vitamin C and minerals, so it has the effects of enriching blood, helping sleep, cooling and annealing, stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis, and because of the comprehensive function of lotus root in human body, it can also help eliminate symptoms such as nerve fatigue, autonomic nervous disorder and insomnia.
Yam has the effects of invigorating spleen, removing dampness, benefiting qi and lung, and consolidating kidney and essence. Yam contains soluble fiber, which can delay the emptying of food in the stomach and control the increase of blood sugar after meals.
It can also help digestion and lower blood sugar. Used for diabetic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and frequent urination.
Control appetite
As a nutritious food, Chinese yam contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids, choline, allantoin and so on. Among them, yam soap, an important nutritional component, is the precursor of synthesizing female hormones, which has the functions of nourishing yin and strengthening yang and enhancing metabolism; Polysaccharides contained in fresh tubers and protein's mucus and digestive enzymes can prevent cardiovascular fat deposition and contribute to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.
What's more worth mentioning is that 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.
There seems to be no side effect. Of course, you can't eat too much of anything. Just eat in moderation.
Winter tonic cannot be ginseng bird's nest. Be careful, it will make you feel weak. In fact, according to the traditional way of health preservation, after entering autumn and winter, not only medicine is advocated, but also the saying that "medicine is not as good as food supplement". Because from the point of view of nutrition, many foods do contain extremely rich nutrition, and their therapeutic and health care effects on the human body are absolutely irreplaceable by medicinal materials.
Unfortunately, for MM, who is the "first figure", she immediately frowned when she heard "food supplement", fearing that the waist had quietly increased by two sizes before winter-why do you have to eat big fish and meat to be called "food supplement"? Don't worry, some complementary food materials can definitely belong to "zero fat".
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"What glitters is not medicine."
The shape of yam is not surprising. Its skin is brown and thin cylindrical. The meat is white and firm, and the taste is slightly sour and sticky when chewing. However, according to ancient records, eating more yam has the functions of "hearing and improving eyesight" and "not starving and prolonging life", which is very beneficial to human health. It is also circulated among the people that yam has obvious effects on conditioning physiological ability, physical weakness after illness, postpartum recuperation of women and strengthening children's physique, so it is called "taking medicine".
Fried yam with tomato.
Control appetite
As a nutritious food, Chinese yam contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids, choline, allantoin and so on. Among them, yam soap, an important nutritional component, is the precursor of synthesizing female hormones, which has the functions of nourishing yin and strengthening yang and enhancing metabolism; Polysaccharides contained in fresh tubers and protein's mucus and digestive enzymes can prevent cardiovascular fat deposition and contribute to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.
What's more worth mentioning is that 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.
Preservation is not difficult.
Fresh yam is easily oxidized by oxygen in the air and turns brown when it comes into contact with iron or metal. So it's best to cut yam with a bamboo knife, or use a plastic blade to draw lines on the skin first, and then peel it into sections by hand. Incision is easy to oxidize, so you can soak it in rice wine first, then blow dry it with a hair dryer to promote wound healing, then wrap it in a napkin, wrap several layers of newspapers around it and put it in a cool corner.
Yam is also called yam, sweet potato and yam. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, yam is warm, sweet and non-toxic, beneficial to kidney qi, strengthening bones and muscles, strengthening spleen and stomach, stopping diarrhea, resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production, moistening fur, and treating nocturnal emission and amnesia. It is an excellent health food and Chinese herbal medicine, and has been widely used as a medicinal tonic in Southeast Asia since ancient times.
N kinds of gourmet schemes of yam
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As food, yam is also a good ingredient. There are many cooking methods, and different methods have different nourishing effects, depending on how you choose.
1, yam wine
Formula: 350g of fresh yam, 2000ml of yellow wine, and proper amount of honey.
Method: Wash, peel and slice the yam for later use; Then pour 600 ml of yellow rice wine into a casserole and boil, add yam, and slowly add the rest of the wine after boiling; After the yam is cooked, take it out and add honey to the wine juice to boil. Features: invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, mainly treating fatigue cough, phlegm-dampness cough, spleen deficiency cough or diarrhea, frequent urination and other symptoms. Attention: Exogenous cough should not be taken.
2, rock sugar yam
Formula: 0.75kg of yam, 3/4 bowls of rock sugar and 5-6 bowls of clear water. Method: Peel and cut into cubes. Add crystal sugar and clear water, boil with strong fire, and then cook with low fire (about 40 minutes) to serve. Features: Yam is soft and sweet, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, removing dampness, benefiting lung and kidney, benefiting essence and invigorating qi.
3. Chinese yam medicated soup
Formula: Chinese yam 5g, Polygonatum odoratum 10g, Ophiopogon japonicus 10g, Lycium barbarum 5g, pigeon 1. Methods: 1. First, the cooked pigeon meat is fried in a pot, and then the broth or boiled water is added; After the water is boiled, take out the meat and put it into the soup pot, then put the washed medicinal materials into the pot, pour the soup into the pot after cooking, and cook it with slow fire for 9 minutes; Add salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and other seasonings before cooking, and the soup is ready. Characteristics: Chinese medicine believes that the sky is yang and the earth is yin, and pigeons absorb a lot of natural yang, so pigeon meat can treat physical weakness caused by kidney essence deficiency; Yam, Polygonatum odoratum and Ophiopogon japonicus can nourish lung and yin. This soup is especially suitable for patients after serious illness.