Single Herb Granules Chinese Yam

Yam, as a common Chinese herb and ingredient, is loved by people for its wide and far-reaching characteristics and effects. Yam, known as Dioscorea opposita in ancient recipes, is sweet and flat in nature, and is mainly classified into the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, making it a medicinal food. The flesh of yam is tender and rich in nutrients, including protein, carbohydrates, many vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, especially amylase, choline, mucus juice enzyme, diosgenin and mucin, which have many benefits for human health.

The first major effect of yam is to strengthen the spleen and stomach. The amylase and polyphenol oxidase contained in yams help the digestion and absorption functions of the spleen and stomach, which can calm the qi of the spleen and stomach and nourish the yin of the spleen and stomach, and have a good therapeutic effect on the symptoms of a weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite and tiredness, and loose stools and diarrhea. In addition, the sticky substance of yam, mucin, also helps to protect the gastric mucosa and enhance the digestive function. Yam also has the effect of benefiting the lungs and relieving cough. Yam contains saponin, mucin and other components, with lubricating and moisturizing effect, can nourish the lung qi, nourish the lung yin, for the lung deficiency and cough, deficiency cough and other symptoms have a significant therapeutic effect. In clinical practice, yam is often used in the treatment of patients with insufficient lung qi and chronic coughs, and its role in generating fluids and moisturizing the lungs is widely recognized.