Chinese yam belongs to the medicinal and food drugs, if you need to achieve the effect of tonic spleen and stomach can be combined with other drugs decoction to take. The effective dosage of daily infusion or consumption is limited, and often fails to achieve the efficacy of the treatment of disease.
Yam is sweet in flavor, flat in nature, and belongs to the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of benefiting qi and tonifying yin (tonifying qi and yin fluid), nourishing the spleen, lungs and kidneys, and consolidating essence and stopping the diaphoresis (stopping the diaphoresis by consolidating essence and qi). Combined with other herbs, it can be used as a treatment for spleen deficiency, poor appetite, fatigue, weakness, loose stools, coughing, frequent urination, and thirst.
The adverse effects of yam are not clear. It is forbidden to be used with Glycyrrhiza glabra, cuttlebone, oyster and corrugated seed. Be cautious of using with vitamin C, gastric enzyme combinations and other drugs. Do not combine with hypoglycemic drugs. It should not be taken by those who are suffering from dampness and distension (the abdomen is distended due to the accumulation of dampness in the body), or those who have solid evils or food stagnation.
Before using the medicine, patients need to use the medicine under the guidance of a Chinese medicine doctor’s diagnosis, and please consult the hospital in time if any discomfort occurs.