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.
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Yam bean curd soup
Ingredients: yam, box tofu, egg liquid, mushrooms, coriander, fresh soup, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, water starch, etc.
Exercise:
1. Peel the yam, cut it into diced pieces, and cut the box of tofu into the size of yam.
2. Wash coriander and cut into pieces, and cut mushrooms into pieces.
3. Add fresh soup, main ingredients, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and pepper to taste. Add yam.
4. When the soup is boiled, thicken it with water and adjust it to be thick. Add the egg mixture and sprinkle with coriander powder.
Osmanthus fragrans yam porridge
Materials: yam 100g, coix seed 20g, osmanthus fragrans.
Exercise:
1. Wash and slice yam for later use.
2. Cook Coicis Semen until it is half cooked, add yam until the porridge is cooked, and finally add osmanthus.
Tip: You can also cook yam porridge with longan, lily and jujube.
Stir-fried shredded Chinese yam
Ingredients: yam and green pepper
Seasoning: salt, chicken essence, chicken soup, sugar, white vinegar, onion and ginger.
Exercise:
1. Chinese yam is peeled, washed and shredded, and green pepper, onion and ginger are washed and shredded.
2. light the fire in the pot and add water. After the water boils, pour in shredded yam and shredded green pepper, blanch, take out, air-cool, and control the moisture.
3. Put chicken soup, salt, chicken essence, white sugar, white vinegar and shredded onion and ginger into a pot and beat into juice.
4. Ignition in the pot, put the oil, pour the shredded yam and shredded green pepper into the oil, pour the prepared juice, stir fry evenly, and then take it out of the pot and put it on the plate.
Yam cake
Ingredients: yam, glutinous rice flour, cooked noodles, bread crumbs, starch and eggs.
Exercise:
1. Peel the yam, wash it, steam it for 12 minutes, and then press it into yam paste.
2. Boil the cooked noodles with hot water and beat the eggs into egg liquid. Add yam mud and glutinous rice flour to make round cakes.
3. Dip the prepared yam cake in dry flour and egg liquid, wrap the outermost layer with bread crumbs, and fry in oil pan until golden brown.
Efficacy and function of Chinese yam
1, invigorating qi and nourishing blood
Blood deficiency needs to replenish blood. Foods with good blood-enriching effects include pork liver, beef tendon, squid, longan pulp, black beans, black sesame seeds, etc. Chinese medicines with strong blood-enriching effects include donkey-hide gelatin, prepared rehmannia root, angelica, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, white peony root, Spatholobus suberectus, mulberry and so on. Yam has the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach, and can be used in blood-enriching foods and medicines to enhance the blood-enriching effect.
2. Tonifying deficiency and resisting aging
Yam is sweet, cool and moist, and enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. According to "Depei Materia Medica", it has the function of supplementing deficiency and benefiting loss. Chen Xiuyuan, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, once explained the function of yam, saying that it flattens the lungs, tastes sweet, and the spleen governs blood and hands and feet. If the spleen is full of blood, you will not be hungry and your limbs will be quick. The lungs govern qi, and the lungs are full of qi, which makes you fit and multiply your qi; Because of its thick and sticky texture, it can tonify kidney, replenish essence, strengthen essence and yin, and prolong life. Modern pharmacological studies believe that yam contains saponins, glycoproteins, tannins, oxytocin, diosgenin, choline, starch, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other components, which can induce interferon and has a certain anti-aging material basis. It can be seen that yam can really tonify deficiency and cure damage, and prolong life.
3. Strong aesthetic feeling
Yam contains mucin, a mixture of various sugars and protein, which can increase the lubricity of mucosa and skin and reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation. It is a good beauty food, which can be taken alone or in combination. Yam porridge, yam wine, Liuwei Dihuang drink, Zishen Shenggan drink, etc. They all have the functions of strengthening bones and muscles, beauty beauty and keeping fit.
4. Nourishing yin and nourishing yang
Yam nourishes yin and has the function of clearing away deficiency and heat. Huang Guanxiu said in "Materia Medica Seeking Truth" that yam belongs to food, and the ancients used it to decoct soup, which means invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, clearing heat and removing fire. Its color is white in the lungs and sweet in the spleen. Although its qi is warm but flat, it can nourish the yin of spleen and lung, so it can moisten the moss and promote granulation. It is astringent, can cure nocturnal emission, tastes sweet and salty, can also benefit kidney and strengthen yin, produce carbuncle and sore, reduce swelling and harden, and also has the meaning of nourishing yin and reducing fever.
This paper analyzes the prescription of yam used by predecessors, and blindly drinks yam to treat fever, asthma, cough or spontaneous sweating. Shengsheng decoction is mainly composed of yam, and it is combined with Scrophularia, Atractylodes macrocephala, Fructus Arctii and Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli to treat asthenia due to yin deficiency. Astragalus ointment takes yam as adjuvant, and assists Astragalus membranaceus and gypsum in treating lung disease. Liquan drink with yam, radix rehmanniae, radix asparagi and radix scrophulariae is used to treat diabetes and yin deficiency. Polygonatum odoratum, Trichosanthis Radix and Polygonum Multiflori Radix are used to cure thirst, while Heshan medicine is used to nourish yin and promote fluid production. All these indicate that yam has certain effects of nourishing yin, clearing away deficiency and clearing heat.
5. Strengthen the body and eliminate evil spirits
Yam is mild in taste and has the functions of moistening lung, strengthening spleen and tonifying kidney. It can not only tonify yang to enhance the function of viscera, but also tonify yin to nourish the material base. What is more gratifying is that it can enhance the body's resistance, not love evil, and can also be used when evil spirits exist. Therefore, on the basis of determining the therapeutic principle of strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil, doctors in past dynasties often choose it to formulate prescriptions, and its application scope is very wide. The combination of Chinese yam and honeysuckle, and the use of Chinese yam and burdock have all played the role of Chinese yam in strengthening the body resistance, not loving evil, and eliminating evil without hurting righteousness.