"It's like a tree root and a stick. It has a hair on the roots. The name sounds bitter and steamed and fried." This is a simple riddle. The answer is yam. The yam medicine is actually a good food for both medicine and food. The yam has nourishing and strengthening, helping digestion, condensing sweat, and preventing diarrhea. Therefore, when yam is used to make traditional Chinese medicine, fresh yam is used to remove impurities, and the size of the yam is soaked. To thoroughly, cut thick slices, put it in a baking cage and dry it.
The difference between yam and iron yam
Chinese yam
The biggest difference between Huai yam and yam medicine is its origin. The yam is a yam planted in Jiaozuo, Henan Province. It has been famous since ancient times because Jiaozuo was known as Huaiqing Prefecture. Therefore, yam in Jiaozuo is also known as yam.
Iron Stick Yam
There are many varieties of yam yam in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. Iron yam yam belongs to one of them. It is the best yam yam, and its nutritional value and taste are the best in yam. Compared with other yams, the iron and yam yam has certain differences in its nutritional value and health care function. In recent years, its reputation has become more and more loud and has made it a gift to share.
Dioscorea yams can be subdivided into iron yam yam, white yam yam, and small cashew yams, and the iron yam is a variety of yam. Iron Rod Yam is a “pure product†of Chinese yam. Compared with ordinary yam, the iron yam has a uniform thickness, usually 1 cm to 2 cm in diameter, slightly more hairs, slightly darker skin, and a distinctive dark red color. "Rust spots" are powdery and greasy, and the cross-section is white or slightly yellowish after breaking. Due to the large amount of amino acids, the juice is rich and delicious, and the entrance feels "sweet and sweet" with a hint of numbness.
The difference between yam and yam medicine
1, the difference of origin:
White yam is a yam produced in ancient Huaiqing Prefecture (now Jiaozuo region) and is the most authentic yam.
Yam yam is a yam produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, and other places. It is also known as Mao yam.
2, the difference in medicinal value:
Dioscorea opposita is mainly used as a medicinal herb. It has a high medicinal value and its therapeutic effect is extremely remarkable.
Huai yam medicine is generally used as a vegetable yam food, medicinal value is not high in yam.
Huai yam should be the ancient iron yam produced in ancient Huaiqing Prefecture, which is today's Jiaozuo region of Henan Province. It can be eaten and used as medicine.
Nutritional effect
White yam is white and contains essential nutrients such as protein, vitamins, starch, calcium and phosphorus. According to pharmacological studies, mucopolysaccharides in yam can stimulate and regulate the body's immune system, and have anti-tumor, anti-viral and anti-aging effects. . Mucopolysaccharide combined with inorganic salts can form bone to make cartilage have a certain elasticity.
The most important feature of yam is that it contains a large amount of mucin, a mixture of polysaccharides and proteins, which has a special health-care effect on the human body, prevents the deposition of fat on the cardiovascular system, maintains the elasticity of blood vessels, and prevents premature atherosclerosis. occur. Saponins in Chinese yam can regulate blood pressure, lower blood sugar, lower blood fat, and suppress tumors. At the same time, it is also beneficial to the protection of the stomach. The unique viscous texture of the mucus can form a layer of protection on the stomach wall and relieve the pressure of the gastric mucosa.
The allantoin contained in yam has an anesthetic effect, which can promote epithelial growth and play an anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effect. It is used to assist in the treatment of hand-foot and cleft palate and ichthyosis.
1. Nourishing the body and delaying aging
Yam is rich in many kinds of vitamins, and among the 18 kinds of amino acids the human body needs, Yam contains 16 kinds. At the same time, yams are also rich in trace elements. Edible yam can nourish cells, enhance the body's hematopoietic function, and can also improve the body's immunity. Functional, so eating yam can nourish the body. Yam can also cause the brain to secrete a substance called dehydroepiandrosterone. Dehydroepiandrosterone can improve sleep and delay aging.
2. Anti-diarrhea
Yam is a nourishing food. It has good curative effect on diarrhea caused by poor spleen and gastrointestinal function. Because eating yam can help the spleen and stomach, it is easy for the spleen and stomach, so it will have diarrhea formed due to bad spleen and stomach. Efficacy.
3. Prevention of arteriosclerosis in coronary heart disease
Yam is rich in nutrients such as mucin, amylase, dietary fiber, dopamine, etc. Mucin and dietary fiber can prevent the deposition of fat in blood vessels and reduce the absorption of cholesterol, thereby reducing the cholesterol and fat in blood vessels. Deposition, and dopamine can dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation, so eating yam can prevent coronary artery disease of arteriosclerosis.
4 hypoglycemic
The glycoprotein in yams is hydrolyzed into proteins and sugars in the human body, which can reduce blood sugar, and yam contains amylase, which can promote the digestion of food. Therefore, yam is one of the foods suitable for diabetics. Because it helps lower blood sugar.
5. Weight loss, beauty
Yam contains a substance called yam soap, which is a precursor to estrogen and can nourish yin and make skin beautiful. It has also been mentioned before that many substances in yam can promote digestion, and yam's calorie and fat content are very low, and it is rich in dietary fiber, so yam is a good weight-loss food, and yam is easy to eat after You have a feeling of fullness without eating too much calories, so eating yams can help you lose weight.
6. Gushen filling essence
For some men with nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, yam is a good food for Gushen filling, because yam can make kidney and make up nourishing yin.
7. Promote digestion
Yam is rich in dietary fiber, can promote gastrointestinal motility, also contains amylases, and promote the digestion of food, so eating yam can help digestion.
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