Chinese yam has the value of tonifying the spleen and vital energy, nourishing the lungs and yin, and astringing the essence to stop the band.
1. Nourishing the spleen and benefiting qi: Yam can enter the spleen meridian and has the effect of nourishing the spleen. It can be used for treating symptoms such as poor appetite, fatigue, loose diarrhea, etc. caused by weak spleen qi (weakness of spleen qi) and deficiency of both qi and yin (deficiency of vital energy and yin), and it can also be used for treating women’s leucorrhea (abnormalities in the texture and character of female vaginal secretions) due to deficiency of the spleen without transportation and downward injection of dampness.
2. Tonifying the lungs and nourishing yin: yam can enter the lung meridian, with the effect of benefiting lung qi and nourishing lung yin. It can be used in the treatment of chronic cough and asthma caused by lung yin deficiency.
3. Astringent essence to stop the belt: yam can enter the kidney meridian, with the benefit of the kidney astringent essence, the role of the yin and yang. It can be used for the treatment of kidney qi deficiency caused by waist and knee soreness (waist and knee soreness and weakness), frequent urination and men’s spermatozoa premature ejaculation, women’s belt clear and thin (women’s white belt clear and thin and not viscous) and so on, but also can be used for kidney yin deficiency caused by the wasting of the body symptoms.
It should be noted that the use of yam to treat the disease often need to be combined with other medicinal herbs, so patients need to be under the guidance of a physician to take reasonable, not self-medication.