Yam is cheap and effective, and the 16 uses recommended by Chinese medicine are all kinds of nourishment! Quick Collection

Guidance expert: Gu Yingmin, Chief Chinese Medicine Physician, Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

Chinese medicine dietary health is an important magic weapon to support healthy qi. Today, Xiaobian introduces a widely used and easy-to-match tonic ingredient - yam.

Yam efficacy

Yam, also known as Huai yam and Huai yam, is a therapeutic material often recommended by Chinese medicine practitioners and a commonly used ingredient in Cantonese health recipes.

Zhang Xichun, a chinese medicine practitioner in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, believes that yam is the supreme product in tonic medicine, and its characteristics are very peaceful, and it is advisable to take more and more regularly.

Yam flat, sweet taste, return to the spleen, lungs, kidney meridians, tonify the spleen and stomach, benefit the lungs and kidneys. Studies have shown that yam has a variety of effects such as tonic, digestive aid, cough suppressor, expectorant, desensitization, hypoglycemia, hypolipidemic, antioxidant, immunomodulatory and so on.

【Indications】

1. Tonify the spleen and stomach: it is used for the spleen and stomach weakness of the body tiredness or diarrhea, etc., often with party ginseng, white art and other similar uses.

2. Tonify the lungs and benefit the yin: used for lung deficiency and wheezing cough, fatigue cough, etc., can be compatible with sand ginseng, Mai Dong, can also be used alone to boil juice, as tea to drink.

3. Solid kidney astringent: used for kidney deficiency sperm, frequent urination, with the next and other evidence. It is often used with cooked ground and dogwood. If you cure the frequency of urination, it can be used with nootropics and wu medicine.

4. Nourish yin, quench thirst: used to quench thirst yin deficiency internal heat, thirst drink more, urinate frequently, can be used with astragalus, kudzu, smallpox pollen, zhimu.

【Dosage and usage】10~30 grams, large doses can be 60~250 grams, decoction. It is advisable to use the yin and spleen, and it is advisable to stir-fry the spleen.

【Use note】 This product helps the disadvantages of wetness, so the wet is full, or there is stagnation, it should not be taken.

A selection of pairs

1. Use with ginseng

The astringent nature of yam can help ginseng to replenish qi, and its juice is thick and sticky, which can nourish the scorched true yin and the dryness of the ginseng; the yam is the source of the strong true yin, and the ginseng is the root of the cultivation of yuan qi. Yam solid gasification, ginseng general gasification, two drugs combined, mutual synergy, healthy spleen tonic, nourish yin solid, tonic kidney rush.

2. Use in conjunction with white magic

Yam nourishes the stomach yin, the stomach juice is sufficient, self-absorbing; Bai Shu is healthy spleen and yang, the spleen is strong, and it can help the stomach. Two medicines are compatible, one nourishing yin, one helping yang, yin and yang coordination, mutual promotion, supplementation but not greasy, warm but not dry, warm spleen and stomach, healthy spleen and yin.

3. Use with raw ground yellow

The two medicines have the most sap, to nourish the yin of the internal organs, to irrigate the liquid around the body, yam to supplement the spleen and solidify the kidneys, moisturize the lungs and water, and raw ground yellow can help the true yin in the kidneys to moisten the lungs. The two drugs are compatible, the liquid is concentrated and moist, the yin is nourishing and clearing the heat, and the function and benefit are prominent.

4. Use with 37

Sanchi dissolves stasis to stop bleeding, activates blood and collects blood; yam is beneficial to qi to supplement deficiency, nourish yin and solidify, protect the stomach, and nostalgia for the gastrointestinal work; two drugs are used together, one qi and one blood, solid qi and blood intake, complement each other perfectly.

5. Use with psyllium

Yam can fix the stool, and those who are unfavorable to urinate in yin deficiency can take it, and can also benefit urination. Psyllium can facilitate urination, and sex and nourishing yin, can be used as a supplement for kidney medicine, and can also help yam to stop stool. In fact, the two drugs are thick and sticky, and they are served with porridge, which can linger on the stomach and intestines, nourish the yin, fix the stool, and facilitate urination.

6. Use with longan meat

Yam flavor sweet return to the spleen, nourish the yin to supplement the spleen and stomach; longan meat taste sweet, aromatic, flat, liquid thick and moist, for the heart and spleen medicine, can nourish the spleen and blood (taste sweet return to the spleen), strengthen the spleen and stomach (qi incense can awaken the spleen); the two drugs are compatible, the quality is thick and moist, to nourish the yin of the stomach, its acid juice is multi-lived, the source of biochemistry, so tonify the spleen and nourish the blood, the effect of strengthening the stomach.

7. Use in conjunction with xuan ginseng

Yam color white into the lungs, the liquid is thick and nourishing yin; xuan ginseng color black, sweet and bitter taste, cool and liquid, go to the scorched floating heat, retreat from the burning heat of the body, clear the kidney meridian, subsidize the yin; the two drugs are used together, nourish the yin and clear the heat, nourish the lungs and stop coughing.

8. Use with burdock seeds

Burdock body slippery fragrance, can moisten the lungs and can also benefit the lungs, and yam, can be used together, can stop coughing and asthma, in order to become a lung work; yam sticky moisturizing liquid, although taken for a long time, or there is stagnation, and burdock slippery, can actually help. And burdock can lower the reverse of lung qi, and can also pass stool, and the stool condenses with cold fire. Two medicines, one tonic and one benefit, one astringent and one slippery, can stop coughing and asthma, nourish the yin and fix it.

9. Use in conjunction with half summer

Yam in the upper power to supplement the lungs and jin, then use more half a summer without worrying about its dryness, in the next great energy to supplement the kidney rush, then the impulse to nourish; half summer taste spicy, warm, toxic, stomach and anchong; two medicines to participate, supplement and descend combined, one drop and one drop, the work of the reverse AnChong is enhanced.

10. Use with substitute ochre

Yam tonify the spleen and kidneys, warm and solidify the scorch, nourish the true yin; substitute ochre color red slightly cool, can produce blood and can cool blood, and its quality is heavy, and good at calming the reverse qi, reducing phlegm and salivation, stopping vomiting, and using it properly can see miraculous effects. And the color is red into the heart, in order to help the heart qi decline; two medicines, one white and one red, one to supplement one town, one solid and one drop, play a common role to supplement the spleen and stomach, solidify the gas, reduce the reverse and flat flush, nourish the yin and stop the bleeding effect.

11. Use with persimmon cream cake

Yam color white into the lungs, sweet taste into the spleen, liquid thick beneficial to the kidneys, clear spleen and lungs kidneys; persimmon cream cake color white into the lungs, cool can moisten the lungs, gan can return to the spleen, with the benefit of lung qi, clear lung heat, lung phlegm, nourish the lungs dry function; two drugs to participate, calm and cold phase, medicinal, food therapy coexist, can strengthen the spleen to supplement the kidneys, moisturize the lungs and nourish the yin.

12. Use with chicken inner gold

Yam to nourish the yin of the stomach, stomach juice is sufficient, self-contained (stomach food depends on sour juice). Chicken inner gold is the spleen and stomach of the chicken, there are porcelain, stone, copper, iron, can be digested, its good and tangible accumulation can be known. And its sex is very peaceful, and it has the magic of supplementing the spleen and stomach with the spleen and stomach, so it can help the spleen and stomach to supplement the spleen and stomach, and the Special Qigong is beyond the reach of other medicines. Raw yam juice is thick and sticky, can nourish the scorched true yin, its smell is sweet and warm, and it can also solidify the scorched gasification also. Chicken inner gold, its healthy spleen and stomach power, can not only circulate the stagnation of the tonic, its strength to collect the bladder, but also can stay in the nature of the hot medicine. It can also turn the sugar in food into a liquid. This medicine can dissolve blood stasis without hurting qi. Two medicines are combined, one supplement and one elimination, supplement and elimination are combined, and the spleen and stomach are played together, and the work of Shisheng tong pulse.

13. Use with talc

Yam tonic spleen and lungs solid kidneys; talc relieves heat and relieves dampness. Zhang Xichun believes: "Talc and raw yam are two xu each, decoction soup, then the upper can clear the heat, the lower can stop diarrhea, do not work casually, the yam of the great nourishment of true yin, the great solid yuan qi as a counselor." True yin foot, then urinate self-interest, yuan qi solid, then diarrhea stops. And its juice is thick and sticky, and it can stay in talc, not to the speed of light infiltration, its cool nature by the stomach into the spleen, by the spleen to the lungs, water essence four cloth, under the bladder, then the heat of the body and the scorched dry thirst and shortness, there is no sudden removal! "And yam multi-liquid astringent supplement, talc cool moist, two drugs used together, one to supplement the stool, one to urinate, tonic infiltration, play a common role in nourishing yin and dryness, clear heat and dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea."

14. Use with chicken yellow

The nature of yam, can nourish the yin and wet, can be smooth and astringent, is to supplement the lungs and kidneys and supplement the spleen and stomach. And it contains the most protein, in the tonic is the supreme product, the characteristics are very peaceful, should be taken more often to the ear. Cover chicken yellow, has the function of solidifying the large intestine, and is whiter than chicken, easy to digest also. Two medicines are compatible, one nourishing supreme product, one flesh and blood sentient thing, nourishing yin, astringent intestines and relieving diarrhea.

15. Use in conjunction with mustard

Yam flavor sweet return to the spleen, healthy spleen and stomach, solid gasification, and spare the power of convergence; qi shi beneficial kidney healthy spleen, convergence solid astringency, the two are used together, to supplement the spleen and stomach qi, and converge the true qi of the spleen and stomach, its supplement to the deficiency of the collection, the work of the solid qi is enhanced.

16. Use with coix seeds

All are medicines for tonifying the spleen and lungs. However, the use of yam alone, long time will lose stickiness, single use of barley, long time will lose in light seepage, but equal parts and use, but can be taken for a long time without drawbacks. The two color into the lungs and spleen, one to supplement and one infiltration, healthy spleen to supplement the deficiency, moisturize the lungs and nourish the yin, like pearl jade.

Yam dietary remedy recommended

First, mash the yam and coix seeds into coarse residue, cook until they are cooked, and then chop the persimmon cream cake, adjust it into the melt, and adults take it in moderation, which is good for health.

Source: Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine