yam 
 
 
Luo Xinghong Nanjing university of Chinese medicine
Zhao Xia Chinese medicine hospital of jiangsu province 
 
 
China's traditional Chinese medicine to 

        The resources 
 
        For yam plant dry yam rhizome. Agriculture in henan and other places, with quality, and the solid, powder, white color is better. Alias names have yam, the mountains meet, Yu, huaiqing yam, Chinese yam rhizome, potato chips, mountain soil, jade. 
 
        Yam tonifying spleen, nourishing the stomach fluid profit lung, kidney and astringent extract. Used to eat less pixu (spleen deficient), diarrhea, asthmatic cough, lung kidney empty, spermatorrhea, taken down, frequent urination, excessive heat. Bran Fried yam tonifying spleen stomach. Used for eat less pixu (spleen deficient), diarrhea, loose stools, leukorrhagia. 
 
        Legend story 
 
        A legend 
 
        In ancient times, henan jiaozuo a with a small country called wild kingdom, often bullied by some countries. One winter, a big country sent troops invading wild kingdom, although wild kingdom men desperate resistance, but eventually lost due to lack of strength, under the enemy's chase, they escaped into the mountains, snow, happened to heaven enemies think mountain 27 high groove depth, easy to keep difficult to attack, then blocked the mountain road, want to wild kingdom men trapped in the mountains. 
 
        The men under the snow, cold and hunger, many people are dying. Despair, a soldier carrying a few roots to dig for running things, very sweet, very delicious. Soldiers a listen to, immediately began to dig a plane, the sword and contrast, dug up a lot of very soon. People feast, feel energy, and even the disabled under the action of it in a few days fine now. At the moment, the general commanded, the soldiers like a tiger to break and recapture the lost ground. 
 
        Later, the men in honor of this plant, named it "mountain", and the mean of despair in the mountains meet food, as more people eat the plant, people gradually found that it has illnesses fitness effect, so the name of "mountain" to "yam". 
 
        Legend has it that the second 
 
        Ancient Chinese yam is called yam, are classified as top grade in the cold-induced febride. "Cold-induced febride records:" mountain ingredients GanWen, tonify deficiency target, in addition to not evil; fill in, good strength, long muscles; long served fresh and smart, intellectual man fit, not hunger, and live." The meaning of this sentence is that it can fill in yiqi, later that many physicians are discussed yam has the effect of fill in yiqi. Chinese yam can also made the virtual target man get benefit, become strong, long muscles. One might doubt, yam how can let a person long muscles? The acknowledgement that, yam has the effect of tonifying spleen, for the spleen the muscles, so tonifying spleen, can let a person muscle plump up. So it has always been weak, yam will be used to fill. Later the acknowledgement from the clinical practice, and summed up the development in addition to fill the role of qi in Chinese yam, and the effect of tonifying spleen kidney fixation. Chinese yam can cure the disease is very much. Girls like now, for instance, because of various reasons such as weight loss, fatigue, appears amenorrhoea, and early menopause women now more and more, in the qing dynasty famous doctor Zhang Xichun then how to treat the disease? Be in the Chinese yam. 
 
        Zhang Xichun once treated a case of a patient, is a girl. The girl still didn't get married, menstruation is less and less, and amenorrhea for more than a year. Her daily trips on the bed, all day have no energy. When it is believed that she was suffering from tuberculosis, bad governance. Zhang Xichun how cure? With the Chinese yam. Tell her family, every day will be four two yam grind into powder, the girl to boil water to drink. Results the Fang Zizhen has worked. Two months later, the girl menstruation again, have an immediate impact. 
 
        Later Zhang Xichun summing up experience, said the party can mix some chicken's gizzard-membrane, because chicken gizzard have the effect of invigorate the circulation. Use chicken gizzard afraid hurt people upright, water will boil together with yam, giving those abnormal menopause women. Why treat amenorrhoea use yam best? Because the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, the person's blood is our taste subtle generated by the absorption of food, that is the source of spleen and stomach as the sublimation of qi and blood, the day after tomorrow. Abnormal menopause women, mostly because of spleen deficiency, qi deficiency, so use yam spleen blood, menstruation will come naturally.
 
 
 
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