Ruichang yam is an excellent variety and a traditional specialty of Ruichang. According to the records of Ruichang County in Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty, yam was one of the important products and medicinal materials in Ruichang at that time, and it had been cultivated for more than 500 years. Its tubers are rich in nutrients such as starch, sugar, protein, vitamins, amino acids, etc., and have strong preparation functions of invigorating spleen, tonifying kidney and nourishing lung. It's first-class food, first-class medicine. Ruichang yam has strong applicability, high yield, storage and transportation resistance, long-term cooking without paste and unique flavor. "Yam" is also known as sweet potato, yam and Ru Ping. Yam is a nourishing delicacy and can be cooked in many ways, such as frying, frying, rolling and soup. Yam has the functions of "invigorating spleen and lung, strengthening kidney and benefiting essence". These health foods have the effects of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, invigorating spleen and kidney, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Yam has been a favorite nourishing health product of China people since ancient times. It is rich in nutrition. It can be fried, boiled, distilled with sugar, dried in the sun and used as medicine. It is a tonic and tonic, and has an auxiliary effect on human weakness, chronic enteritis and diabetes. In the Compendium of Materia Medica in ancient China, Li Shizhen said: Chinese yam can benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm, promote fluid production and stop diarrhea, moisten lung and skin, and soften blood vessels. It contains a lot of vitamins and has high medicinal value. It is also what modern people call pollution-free green vegetables, and it is one of the vegetables exported from China. [Edit this paragraph] The medicinal and edible value of yam is 1. Yam is a precious Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal value. Yam contains unique pharmacological components such as sapogenin and lutein, which is the main raw material for synthesizing steroid hormones. Its water-soluble extract can also be used to prepare new drugs for treating coronary heart disease. Chinese medicine believes that yam is flat and sweet, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and lung, consolidating kidney and replenishing essence. Can be used for treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cough and gargle due to lung deficiency, chronic dysentery, diabetes, leucorrhea and frequent urination. Yam is often used as tonic and tonic, and it is the main component of dozens of Chinese patent medicines. Moreover, the high cellulose contained in yam can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer, so it has high medicinal value.
2. Yam is rich in various nutrients and is a popular high-grade health food. According to the determination of relevant departments, every 100g of dried yam contains crude protein 14.4%, crude fat 3.78% and starch 43.79% on average. It contains total sugar 1. 14% and ash 5.51%; It contains 2.62% potassium, 0.72% P2O5, 0. 14% magnesium, 0. 12% calcium, 53.57PPm iron, 29.22PPm zinc, 10.85ppm copper and 5.38PPm manganese. Every 100g of fresh yam contains 0.02mg of carotene, 0.08mg of vitamin B100, 0.02mg of vitamin B2, 0.4mg of vitamin C and 0.3mg of nicotinic acid, and its iron content is 3-4 times that of ginseng. In addition, yam also contains 16 kinds of amino acids, mucus juice, choline, polyphenol oxidase, mannan, phytic acid, arginine, allantoin and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine, which is one of the important tonics of 18 in China.
The function of yam
1. is rich in nutrients and contains many nutrients necessary for human body.
2. It can supply a large amount of mucin to human body. Mucin is a mixture of polysaccharide and protein, which has a special protective effect on human body. It can prevent the fat deposition of cardiovascular system, maintain the elasticity of arterial blood vessels and prevent the premature occurrence of atherosclerosis.
3. The mucopolysaccharide of yam, if combined with inorganic salts, can form bone and make cartilage elastic.
4. Chinese medicine believes that yam has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying lung and kidney, and is effective for cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic gastroenteritis, diabetes and nocturnal emission. [Edit this paragraph] The edible and medicinal use of yam 1. Vinegar medlar yam
Ingredients: 300g yam, 0g medlar10g, 50g rock sugar and 30ml white vinegar.
Practice: Peel the yam and soak it in cold water for a while. Wash Lycium barbarum with clear water, and then soak it in warm water until it is completely initiated. Cut the yam into strips 6 cm long and 1 cm wide. Put a proper amount of hot water into the pot, boil the yam strips and medlar with high fire, cook for 3 minutes, take them out and shower them in cold water, then drain them and put them on a plate for later use. Leave a little hot water for boiling yam in the pot, then add rock sugar and simmer until it is completely melted, then pour in white vinegar and thicken the soup slightly to make sweet and sour juice. Pour the sweet and sour juice on the Chinese wolfberry yam and soak it for 30 minutes.
2. diet food: fried chicken liver with yam and green bamboo shoots
Ingredients: Chinese yam, green bamboo shoots and chicken liver.
Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, broth, starch.
Exercise:
1, peeled yam and green bamboo shoots, washed and cut into strips. Wash and slice chicken liver for later use.
2. Blanch all the raw materials with boiling water respectively.
3, put the base oil in the pot, add the appropriate amount of broth, add the raw materials after seasoning, stir fry a few times, thicken and serve.
Note: Do not drink coffee and strong tea before and after meals, so as not to affect the absorption of nutrients. Chicken liver can also be replaced by pig liver or sheep liver.
3. Yam honey soup
Materials:
Chinese yam, rose sauce, crystal sugar, honey.
Making:
1. Wash yam and steam in a steamer for 20 minutes until it is not hot. Peel it off with a peeler, cut it into sections obliquely, and put it in a microwave oven container.
2. Put rose sauce, rock sugar and appropriate amount of water into the microwave oven container, and put it in the microwave oven for three minutes without covering the lid.
3. Take out the microwave oven container, air it until it is warm, and then add some honey to soak it.
4. It can prevent cardiovascular diseases in the elderly.
Yam contains a lot of mucin, vitamins and trace elements.
Yam can effectively prevent the deposition of blood lipids on the blood vessel wall and help the elderly to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Regular eating by the elderly can also play a role in invigorating the spleen and lung, consolidating the kidney and replenishing essence, benefiting the heart and calming the nerves.
The specific method is as follows: use yam powder 150g, flour 300g, egg 1, soybean powder 20g, and proper amount of seasoning.
Put yam, flour, bean powder, eggs, water and salt into a basin, knead into dough and make noodles. Put a proper amount of water in the pot, add noodles, lard, onion and ginger after boiling, and add monosodium glutamate after cooking. Elderly people with hypertension can eat yam noodles twice a week, and long-term persistence can play a certain role.
5. Eating yam regularly can benefit qi and nourish yin and nourish spleen, lung and kidney.
Foods with antidiarrheal effects include glutinous rice, millet, yam, lotus seeds, euryales, chestnuts, cherries, Chinese dates, black dates, dried persimmons and so on.
Examples of antidiarrheal therapy are as follows:
1 .200 grams of white flour, stir-fry over low heat until it turns yellow, take out a little, boil water and stir-fry noodles, and add sugar and salt to taste.
2. Cook porridge with 200 grams of japonica rice, add about 50 grams of Poria powder when it is 80% mature, mix well, continue to cook, and add sugar to drink porridge.
3. Soak glutinous rice 100g before cooking porridge. When it is nearly ripe, add yam 100g and cut into pieces, chestnut 100g. After simmering, add sugar to taste.
4. 50 grams of lotus seeds and Euryale ferox (chicken head rice), soak for half a day first, cook porridge with 50 grams of millet, increase the amount of dates when cooked, and adjust sugar to drink porridge.
5. Cut persimmon, hawthorn and black dates into equal parts, cut into pieces and mash them, add water to boil and add sugar, which is sweet and sour, and can be eaten at any time.
6. About 300 grams of fresh lotus root, washed and sliced, boiled and evaporated into about 200 ml of fresh lotus root soup, seasoned with a little sugar, suitable for people with hematochezia.
Diarrhea patients should not eat too much, so they should ensure nutrition and take care of their stomach and rest. Eat less fiber and less fat. Irritant food and fried food are not suitable for meat, fish and thick taste. Some people drinking milk will aggravate diarrhea, which can vary from person to person and can also be drunk with yogurt.
Spleen deficiency and kidney deficiency, wind-cold diarrhea, bowel sounds difficult to rest;
Prolonged diarrhea is not only careless, but also careful diet when investigating the cause.
Yam is both grain and medicine.
Yam is called "sweet potato" in the Central Plains and "mushroom" and "Hu Aishan" in Guangdong. In ancient China, Chinese yam was originally called "Chinese yam". According to legend, Tang Daizong was named Li Yu and Song Yingzong was named Zhao Shu. After many twists and turns, it was named yam. According to an old story, a medicine farmer in Hengshan lost his way and was so hungry that an old man floated in and gave yam to relieve his hunger. Since then, medicine farmers have not been hungry for many days, so they spread the wonderful use of yam throughout the Central Plains to save the hungry people in from the mire.
The first choice is yam produced in Xinxiang, Henan Province, because Qinyang County was called Huaiqing House in ancient times. Yam is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen, lung and kidney meridians, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, and nourishing spleen, lung and kidney. Can be used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, lung deficiency, chronic cough, loose stool, frequent micturition, nocturnal emission, mental fatigue, etc.
There are many ways to eat yam, which can be steamed, peeled, porridge or stir-fried. Drawn yam, crystal yam and yipin yam are also famous. Yam should be compact, pink and white. Mining in the central plains in late autumn, the sweetest in spring, can just improve the symptoms of spleen injury caused by excessive liver fire in spring.
Yam can be used with many foods, neither stagnant nor hot nor dry, but it is rarely used for wet people. Yam has a high sugar content, so diabetics should not eat more. Do not add alkali when cooking, so as not to destroy nutrients. Glucocorticoid should not be used with yam. Yam has therapeutic effect on diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency, but the consumption should not be too large. Eating too much yam will promote the deformation of stool.
Examples of dietotherapy prescriptions with yam participation are as follows:
Jianpi Zhixie Recipe: It is suitable for chronic diarrhea, dyspepsia, abdominal distension and emaciation caused by spleen and stomach weakness. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that yam can "benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, and stop diarrhea ...". Millet 100g, raw coix seed 50g, stew porridge until cooked, peel and cut fresh yam 100g, simmer with slow fire and add a little sugar.
6.yam home-cooked dish
1. Fried yam slices with bacon
2. Stewed ribs with yam
pay attention to
Wear gloves when peeling yam, because yam can make people allergic to ordinary people and cause one's fingers to itch. Wear waterproof gloves or disposable gloves when peeling yam. Peeling tools can be used with planers to peel apples. When uneven places cannot be scraped, they should be scraped off with a knife.