Yi Yi Dioscorea Drink can be used for the treatment of loose stools in lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, and the specific use of the drug should be in accordance with the doctor’s prescription.
Yiwei Dioscorea Drink is a traditional Chinese medicine formula from Zhongzhong Ganshi Lu (《医学衷中参西錄》), which is mainly made of raw Chinese yam (sliced) and sugar, and its medicinal effects include tonifying the spleen and stomach, tonifying the lungs and kidneys, nourishing yin, inducing dampness, astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea (alleviating diarrhea by enhancing the astringent function of the intestines).
This formula is mainly used in treating fever caused by labor and tubercular infection, or spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by the slightest movement of sweating), or heart-strickenness (violent heartbeat, panic), or wheezing or coughing, or slippery stools and diarrhea due to dysuria (unruly urine), or loose stools due to spleen deficiency in intestinal cancer, as well as all the evidence of deficiency of yin.
It is commonly used clinically in patients with lung cancer and pancreatic cancer who have loose stools.
At present, the contraindications and adverse effects of Yi Yi Diao Yao Drink are not clear. Specific medication matters should be carried out under the guidance of specialists, and should not be used without authorization.