The effect of yam is 1, which strengthens the spleen and regulates the stomach and helps digestion.
Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. Blindly nourishing the spleen and stomach is a dual-purpose product of medicine and food. Both spleen yang deficiency and stomach yin deficiency can be eaten. Clinically, it is often used with Weichang Decoction to treat spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, fatigue, diarrhea and other symptoms.
2. Nourishing kidney and essence
Yam contains a variety of nutrients, which has the functions of strengthening body, nourishing kidney and benefiting essence. Generally speaking, symptoms such as nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, leukorrhagia by women and frequent urination can be taken.
Step 3: benefit the lungs and relieve cough
Yam contains saponin and mucus, which can lubricate and moisten dryness, so it can benefit lung qi, nourish lung yin and treat lung deficiency with excessive phlegm and persistent cough.
Step 4 lower blood sugar
Yam contains mucin, which can lower blood sugar. Can be used for treating diabetes, and is a good food for diabetic patients.
5, prolong life
Yam contains a lot of mucin, vitamins and trace elements, which can effectively prevent the deposition of blood lipids on the blood vessel wall, prevent heart disease, and achieve the effects of benefiting the heart, calming the nerves and prolonging life.
The effect of yam is 1. Traditional Chinese medicines for lowering blood pressure, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill, Bawei Dihuang Pill and Guishao Dihuang Pill, are all famous prescriptions made of yam, which are used to treat not only kidney deficiency, but also hypertension, diabetes, asthma, neurasthenia and lumbago.
2. Anti-aging Modern science has proved that yam can significantly reduce the activity of enzymes that accelerate the aging of the body. Bawei Dihuang Pill containing yam is mainly used to treat postpartum sweating. Baoyuan Qingjiang Decoction and Baoyuan Hanjiang Decoction can treat hematemesis and nosebleeds. Cold drenching soup and ointment drenching soup can cure drenching insects. Yam can also treat tuberculosis, typhoid fever and gynecological diseases, which is conducive to prolonging life.
3. Anti-tumor effect Yam tuber is rich in polysaccharide, which can stimulate and regulate human immune system. Therefore, it is often used as a health care drug to enhance immunity. Dioscorea opposita polysaccharide can antagonize the cellular immune suppression caused by cyclophosphamide and restore some or all of the suppressed cellular immune functions to normal. Yam can also enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells. For example, Liuwei Dihuang Pill can treat chronic nephritis, hypertension, diabetes, neurasthenia and other diseases. Baizhi Dihuang Pill can treat ankylosing spondylitis, gynecological fetal leakage, vulvar itching, amenorrhea and other symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire. Guishao Dihuang Pill can treat otodynia due to yin deficiency, tinnitus and spontaneous sweating.
4. Allantoin contained in yam can be used to treat skin diseases, such as chapped hands and feet, ichthyosis and various keratotic skin diseases, because it has anesthetic and analgesic effects, and can promote epithelial growth, diminish inflammation and inhibit bacteria.
The practice of yam 1, yam soup
A) yam stewed chicken soup
Raw materials: fresh yam 2000g, fresh chicken1000g.
Practice: peeled yam, washed and cut into pieces; Peel carrot, washing, and cut into pieces; Chop chicken feet, blanch in boiling water, remove and rinse; First, put the chicken and carrots into the pot, add water until the materials are covered, boil over high fire, and then simmer 15 minutes; Add yam, turn to high fire and boil, turn to low fire and continue cooking 10 minute; Season with salt.
Efficacy: This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen, thickening the stomach, tonifying the lung, tonifying the kidney, tonifying the deficiency and eliminating pathogenic factors. It is suitable for treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic dysentery, cough due to fatigue, nocturnal emission, frequent micturition, etc. But don't eat too much, because it will cause old diseases. Yam chicken soup also has the effect of beauty. Women who love beauty may wish to try it.
B) yam sparerib soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of ribs (big ribs); 250 grams of yam; Celery 25 grams
Practice: cut the ribs into 5 cm strips, soak them in boiling water for about 5 minutes, wash and drain; Wash celery and cut into sections; Take a wok, add water, ribs, onions, ginger, wine and celery, bring to a boil over medium heat, turn to low heat and stew, and add pepper; Peel yam, cut into pieces, soak in boiling water, and pick it up; Stew the ribs until they are medium-cooked, add yam and stew for 3 hours. When the ribs are crisp and rotten, remove the onion, ginger and celery and add salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper.
Efficacy: This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen, thickening the stomach, tonifying the lung and benefiting the kidney. It is suitable for treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic dysentery, cough due to fatigue, frequent urination, etc. Pay attention to the ribs when cooking soup, add some vinegar appropriately, which is beneficial to the outflow of calcium.
2, yam porridge
A) yam millet porridge
Ingredients: millet, yam, rock sugar.
Practice: Wash the millet and cook it in a pot, depending on the amount of millet porridge. After the porridge is boiled, cook it over medium heat 10 minute; Slice or cut the yam, and put the millet porridge in 5 minutes before cooking; Yam millet porridge-After the millet yam porridge is cooked, add a proper amount of rock sugar.
Efficacy: Xiaomi is sweet and salty, cool in nature, and has the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing middle energizer and kidney, and clearing away heat and toxic materials; Yam is sweet and flat. Enter spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It can tonify the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and benefit the lungs, and tonify the kidney and astringent essence.
B) lily yam porridge
Ingredients: lily120g, yam 60g, red dates and rice.
Practice: Peel and dice yam, wash rice, add water, lily and red dates to cook porridge, and season with honey and sugar.
Efficacy: Lily can moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, clear the heart and soothe the nerves; Yam and jujube are sweet and flat products, which can supplement the spleen and stomach, cooperate with them, moisten the lungs and soothe the nerves.
3, yam dessert
Sweet potato, yam, sago dew
Ingredients: 200g yam, 200g sweet potato with red heart, 0/00g sago/kloc, 500g milk.
Practice: Peel sweet potatoes and yams and cut them into pieces for later use; Soak sago in hot water for 5 minutes; Then take out sago, put it in a boiling water pot, cook it while stirring it with high fire, turn off the fire when there are white spots in the middle, cover it and stew it for 10 minutes until it is completely transparent; Standby; Take another pot, boil water, add yam and sweet potato pieces, and boil over high fire; Add rock sugar and simmer for 20 minutes; Change the fire, add the cooked sago and milk and bring to a boil.
Efficacy: Sweet potato yam sago dew has high nutritional value, anti-cancer effect, beneficial to the heart, controllable blood sugar, slimming and beautifying effects, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, anti-cancer and delaying aging.
4. Chinese yam dishes
Stewed beef with yam
Raw materials: 500g beef and 250g yam; 25 grams of celery.
Practice: Wash the beef, cut it into 2 cm square pieces, put it in a boiling water pot, simmer for about 5 minutes, take it out, wash it and drain it; Peel the yam, wash it, put it in a boiling water pot, take it out and drain it; Wash the casserole, add water, beef, onion, ginger, cooking wine and celery, boil over medium heat, skim off the floating foam, add pepper, stew over low heat until half cooked, add yam, stew for about 3 hours until the beef is crisp and rotten, take out onion, ginger and celery, and add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper.
Efficacy: yam is not stagnant, not hot or dry, and can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach yin. Beef is high in protein and low in fat, and its nutritional value is very high. It has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, strengthening bones and muscles, resolving phlegm and calming wind, quenching thirst and stopping salivation, and can warm the stomach, so it is very suitable for eating in winter.