The benefits of eating yam:
1. Benefiting the stomach and helping digestion: Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. It is a homologous product of medicine and food for strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Anyone with spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency can eat it. Clinically, it is often used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, diet fatigue, diarrhea and other diseases.
2. benefit the lungs and relieve cough. Yam contains a variety of nutrients, strong body, and has a good effect in essence. "Kidney deficiency nocturnal emission, women's leucorrhea, etc. Both can be used. Yam contains saponin, which is flat in nature, lubricating and moisturizing. It can benefit lung qi, nourish lung yin, and assist in the treatment of chronic cough due to lung deficiency and phlegm retention.
3. Hypoglycemic: Yam contains mucin, which has hypoglycemic effect, can be used to relieve and improve diabetes, and is a good food for diabetic patients.
4. Longevity: 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 cardiovascular diseases, and play a role in calming the nerves and prolonging life.
5. Promote endocrine and improve physical fitness: Dioscorea is known as the natural "mother of hormones". It can promote the synthesis of endocrine stimulators, promote the metabolism of skin epidermal cells, moisturize the skin and improve physical fitness.
Extended data
Yam has the effects of nourishing and strengthening, helping digestion, astringing deficient sweating and stopping diarrhea, and is mainly used to treat chronic enteritis such as diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cough due to lung deficiency, diabetes, short and red urine, nocturnal emission, female leukorrhagia and dyspepsia. Yam is most suitable to be taken with Ganoderma lucidum, which has the function of preventing and treating diabetes. Yam has a great development prospect in food industry and processing industry.
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