Yam rhizome
Drugs/Chinese herbal medicines and decoction pieces
Category: rhizome
English name: common yam horizon
Nicknames: yam, mushroom.
Source: rhizome of Chinese yam ... Dioscoreaceae.
Plant morphology: winding herb vines. The stems are usually purplish red. Simple leaves alternate in the lower part of the stem and opposite in the middle; Leaf blade ovoid triangular to broadly ovoid or halberd-shaped, with large variation, deep heart-shaped base and 3-lobed margin. Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in slender spikes; Capsule triangular oblate or triangular round, with white powder outside. The flowering period is from June to September, and the fruiting period is July-165438+1October.
Growing place: hillside, valley forest, stream side, roadside shrub or weed. Location: Henan.
Harvest: Dig roots in autumn or winter, remove soil and fibrous roots, cut off reed heads, wash them, soak them in water, scrape off the skin, smoke them repeatedly with sulfur, and dry them in the sun. Some are smoked with sulfur, rubbed into a cylindrical shape with wooden boards, cut into sections, dried and polished.
Chemical composition: mannan, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine, phytic acid, allantoin, choline, dopamine, bataxine, 10 amino acids, glycoprotein, polyphenol oxidase.
Sexual taste: sexual flat, sweet.
Indications: invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting fluid production and benefiting lung, tonifying kidney and astringing essence. Can be used for treating spleen deficiency, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, lung deficiency, asthma and cough, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, frequent micturition, and deficiency heat to quench thirst. Tonify spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and benefit lung, and tonify kidney and astringent essence. Fried yam with bran tonifies the spleen and stomach. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, diarrhea, loose stool, and leukorrhagia.
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Small knowledge of yam
Yam, also known as Hu Aishan, has the reputation of "God of Food". Yam contains a lot of protein, vitamins, beneficial trace elements and sugars, which can regulate human immune system and enhance human immunity. 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".
Health function
Yam is rich in arginine, amylase, iodine, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C and so on. It has the effects of invigorating spleen and lung, consolidating kidney and replenishing essence, and is a good product for strengthening brain and improving eyesight. Can be used for treating pallor caused by deficiency of qi and blood and weakness of spleen and stomach. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that yam can not only invigorate qi, but also nourish yin. It can nourish yin without being greasy, and it is the most peaceful product for nourishing middle-aged qi, and has considerable curative effect on patients with diabetes and hypertension.
The biggest feature of yam is that it can supply a large amount of mucin to human body, which has special health care function for human body. It can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular system, prevent premature occurrence of vascular atherosclerosis, reduce subcutaneous fat deposition and avoid obesity. 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. According to modern scientific analysis, the biggest feature of yam is that it contains a lot of mucin. Mucin is a mixture of polysaccharide and protein, which has special health care effect on human body, can prevent fat from depositing in cardiovascular system, maintain vascular elasticity and prevent atherosclerosis from happening prematurely; Can reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation; It can prevent connective tissue atrophy and prevent collagen diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma. Many nourishing prescriptions, such as Guipi Decoction and Shen Ling Baizhu Powder, contain yam.
The mucus of yam contains the basic substances of female hormones, so yam can promote the synthesis of hormones, help women fight against skin aging caused by hormone reduction, and reduce the accumulation of subcutaneous fat; It can prevent the atrophy of connective tissue. As long as you drink a cup of yam tea every morning, you can take it to improve the moisturizing function of the skin and make the skin smooth and elastic. For women and friends, they often turn blue. As long as they drink a cup of yam tea every morning, they can make up for fatigue and increase their physical strength. Gastrointestinal tract is not good. Eating yam regularly can slow down intestinal peristalsis and help digestion. Therefore, yam is a kind of bodybuilding food. People who want to lose weight can take yam as the staple food, which can not only avoid the damage of dieting to human function, but also help to achieve the purpose of losing weight. 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.
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, 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.
Chinese medicine believes that yam has many functions, such as invigorating spleen and lung, consolidating kidney and replenishing 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. 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. 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. Many classic medical books have a high evaluation of yam. In the folk, yam is called a nourishing good product. It contains protein, sugar, vitamins, fat, choline, amylase and other components, as well as iodine, calcium, iron, phosphorus and other indispensable inorganic salts and trace elements.
The nature and taste of yam return to the meridian: Ganping. Spleen, lung and kidney meridians.
Efficacy: benefiting qi and nourishing yin, strengthening spleen, lung and kidney.
Application: 1 for loose stool diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency and weak qi; 2 for lung deficiency, asthma and cough; 3 for nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, frequent birdsong and excessive leucorrhea of women; 4 It is effective to cure thirst, and it can replenish qi and nourish yin to quench thirst.
Dosage and usage: grind the powder and swallow it, 6- 10g each time, which is suitable for nourishing yin, frying yellow, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea.
taboo
This product can nourish yin and help dampness, so it is not suitable for those with heavy dampness or those with depressed pathogenic factors. Need to remind everyone that eating yam generally has no obvious contraindications, but because of its astringency, people with colds, dry stools and gastrointestinal stagnation are forbidden to use it.
Beauty function
Regular eating can not only make the skin fair, but more importantly, there is enough fiber in yam, which is a natural slimming food to lose weight MM.
1, moisturize skin and prevent dry skin.
2. lose weight. Spleen deficiency and dampness excess, obesity.
The following usage methods are for reference! The "station service" staff of Xingfujia gas station did not try one by one!
Moisturizing and moistening prescription
Ingredients: Bombyx Batryticatus powder 5g, Chinese yam powder 15g, white peony powder 10g.
Honey is diluted with mineral water (about 5-6: 1). 3. Mix 5g of powder with honey water and use it for 6 times continuously.
Usage: Apply it around eyes and lips, and wash it immediately after drying. Efficacy: Strengthen the water storage function of skin.
Fitness detoxification drink
Ingredients: 2 spoonfuls of bitter melon powder, yam powder 1 spoon.
Practice: put bitter melon powder and yam powder into a cup, brew with hot water, add honey (or sugar) and drink after stirring. Small think tank: Yam is also a natural diet food, containing enough fiber, which is a high-nutrition, low-calorie food and can be safely eaten. Bitter gourd and yam have the functions of losing weight and lowering blood sugar. Taking it together can enhance the effect of losing weight and detoxifying. Drinking bitter melon powder regularly can also treat skin problems such as acne and constipation.
Yam and tomato deep freckle removing mask
Ingredients: tomato powder 1 spoon, yam powder 1 spoon, mineral water.
Practice: First, mix tomato powder and yam powder with cold drinking water and apply it to your face. /kloc-After 0/5 minutes, wash with warm water.
Little think tank: This mask has been widely circulated in Japan and South Korea. Mild in nature, it is an anti-aging mask with dual effects of freckle removal and whitening, which is quite suitable for women over 25 years old.
Plastic arm breast enhancement porridge
Ingredients: 50 g of Coix lachryma-jobi seed, 0/5 g of Lycium barbarum/kloc, 50 g of Chinese yam and 0/0 g of Radix Puerariae/kloc. Practice: put all the materials into the inner pot of the rice cooker, add 2 bowls of water, and put 2 bowls of water in the outer pot. You can eat when the rice cooker jumps. You can add a little salt to taste.
Yam milk
Ingredients: yogurt 1 bottle. Appropriate amount of (cooked) yam powder.
Practice: Put the yam powder and yogurt into a cup and mix well. Add sugar and boiled water according to personal preference.
Yam apple juice
Ingredients: 15g yam powder, 1 apple, 250CC fresh milk.
Practice: peel the apple and cut it into small pieces; Put the yam powder, apple pieces and fresh milk into a blender and stir. Add sugar and boiled water according to personal preference.
Yam sesame paste
Ingredients: 20g. Yam powder120g. 250 grams of sesame powder. Fresh milk and some rock sugar.
Practice: add black sesame powder and fresh milk to yam powder, boil and stir it into paste with low fire, and then add rock sugar.
Yam honey tea
20 grams of yam powder, 20 grams of honey (according to personal preference) yam powder, simmer for about 3 minutes, air dry for 5 minutes, and then add honey.
DIY mask
Whitening and freckle removing mask
Ingredients: 15g yam powder, and appropriate amount of milk.
Practice: add yam powder and milk to make a paste. After washing your face, apply the mixed dressing to your face and wash it off for about 20 minutes. Tip: Yam can help inhibit the formation of melanin and prevent the skin from aging and sagging rapidly. You can apply it 3~4 times a week in summer.
Yam spray whitening mask
Ingredients: yam powder 15g, 2 teaspoons of fermented grains.
Practice: Mix the yam powder with a little wine and stir evenly, apply the prepared mask on your face for 15 minutes, and then wash your face with warm water.
Efficacy: whiten skin, prevent skin aging, make skin delicate and smooth, and shrink pores.