Chinese yam can be used for the inability to pass stools caused by spleen qi deficiency, and is often used in combination with other medicines. The specific use of medication to follow the doctor’s prescription.
Yam is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried rhizome of the plant Dioscoreaceae. It is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. Its main effect is to nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, generate fluid and moisten the lungs, benefit the kidney and astringe the essence. It is mainly used in the treatment of spleen deficiency with low food intake, prolonged diarrhea, kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, dyspareunia, frequent urination, lung deficiency with cough and asthma, and deficiency heat and thirst.
Adverse reactions to yam have not been precisely documented. Note that it is forbidden for those who are allergic to the product, allergic people should be cautious, and those who are damp and full of dampness (too much dampness leading to fullness and discomfort in the spleen and stomach) or those who have solid evils or stagnation should be forbidden to take the product. Yam can strengthen the spleen and benefit the qi, can be used for spleen qi deficiency caused by fecal impassability, often used in conjunction with other drugs.
If you need to use yam, it is recommended to go to the hospital, in the professional Chinese medicine practitioner after a clear identification of drugs, do not blindly buy drugs, in order to avoid adverse reactions.