Dried yam is a common food, can also be used in traditional Chinese medicine, dried yam as food, in the appropriate dose of boiled water to drink, children can drink every day, as a drug, the specific way to take should follow the doctor’s instructions, do not recommend to boil their own water to take every day.
Yam is the dried rhizome of Dioscoreaceae plant Dioscorea, cut into thick slices and dried as dried yam slices, which is used for both medicinal and dietary purposes. This product has the effect of tonifying the kidney and astringent essence, tonifying the spleen, nourishing the stomach, generating fluids and benefiting the lungs, and can be used for symptoms such as deficiency heat and thirst, frequent urination due to kidney deficiency, prolonged diarrhea, asthma and coughing due to lung deficiency, poor appetite due to spleen deficiency, spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency and hypoglossia due to banding.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of yam are not clear. Since yam is used for both medicinal and dietary purposes, dried yam tablets are used as food, boiled in water in appropriate doses, and children can drink it every day, and when used as medicine, the specific way of taking it should be in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, and it is not recommended to take it every day by itself in boiled water.
The use of Chinese medicine needs to be under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the evidence, do not self-medication, so as not to affect your health.