Yam enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians.
Yam is the dried rhizome of the plant Dioscoreaceae. It is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effect of nourishing the spleen, nourishing the stomach, promoting the production of fluids and lungs, tonifying the kidney and astringing the essence. It is used for spleen deficiency with little food, prolonged diarrhea, lung deficiency with asthma and cough, kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, dyspareunia, frequent urination, and deficiency of heat and thirst. Bran-fried Yam tonifies the spleen and strengthens the stomach. Used for spleen deficiency with little food, diarrhea and loose stools (thin and unformed feces), and excessive leucorrhea.
Yam, Atractylodes macrocephala, ginseng pounded into fine powder, boiled white batter for the pill, such as small beans, each serving thirty pills, empty heart before eating warm rice drink to treat the spleen and stomach weakness, do not want to enter the diet; yam, Cangzhu made of rice pills, rice drink for the treatment of dampness-heat deficiency diarrhea.
Yam is forbidden to be taken by people who are full of dampness (too much dampness causing fullness and discomfort in the spleen and stomach) or have solid evils or stagnation.
If there is a need for medication, it should be taken under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner and in accordance with the doctor’s prescription, rather than blindly on one’s own.