The efficacy and consumption method of yam

　　The effects of yam:

　　Clear away heat and detoxify.

　　Treat febrile diseases with fever, heat poison, blood dysentery, carbuncle ulcer, swollen poison, scrofula, hemorrhoids and leakage.

　　①"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": clears heat, relieves sores, carbuncles on the back, and elixirs for scrofula.

　　②"Herbal Preparations"; it can eliminate carbuncle and furuncle poison, stop dysentery, cleanse furuncle, and remove skin Blood heat.

　　③"Compendium of Materia Medica": Nourish blood and quench thirst.

　　Treat scabies.

　　④"Chongqingtang Essays": Clears the collaterals due to wind-fire, dampness and heat, relieves the evil turbid evil caused by the epidemic disease, soothes the liver and gallbladder and relieves the wind and yang, and cures spasms and syncope. epilepsy Various symptoms.

　　⑤Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": Clearing away heat and detoxifying.

　　Treat exogenous fever cough , enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, mumps, septicemia, boils, appendicitis, trauma infection, prickly heat in children.

　　Made into herbal tea, it can prevent heatstroke, cold and intestinal infectious diseases.

　　The functions of yam:

　　1. Hypoglycemic effect

　　2. Regulate the body’s response to non-specific stimuli

　　3. Effect on immune function

　　4. Effect on small intestinal motility in mice

　　Twenty Kunming mice were divided into 2 groups and fasted for 24 hours. The experimental group was treated with 10 ml of yam water decoction (containing 1 g/ml of crude drug) + 0.5 g of activated carbon (commercially available), and the control group was treated with 10 ml of normal saline + 0.5 g of activated carbon, respectively. After 20 minutes, the animals were immediately sacrificed by spinal cord dislocation, the small intestine was taken out and flattened, the distance (cm) of the carbon powder pushed from the pyloric sphincter to the end of the small intestine was measured, and the percentage of this distance to the total length of the small intestine was calculated. The results show that yam has the effect of stimulating small intestinal movement and promoting the emptying of intestinal contents.

　　5. Other nutrients contained are related to mucus and amylase, which have a nourishing effect and can aid digestion. Stop diarrhea. Expectorant.

　　How to eat yam:

　　1. Yam porridge: Remove the hair, wash and peel the yam, cut it into 3-4 cm long yam segments, and cook it with rice when making rice porridge every night.

　　2. Carved yam: (1) Raw materials: 500 grams of yam, 100 grams of sugar, appropriate amounts of green and red silk, wolfberry, and vegetable oil. (2) Processing and production: Remove the outer skin of the yam, wash it, and cut it into ribs; wash the wolfberry and chop it into pieces. When making, add vegetable oil to the pot and heat it to 60 to 70% hot. Fry the yam in the oil until it is soft inside and hard on the outside and golden brown. Remove and drain the oil. Leave a little oil in the pot, add white sugar and fry until the sugar liquid is light yellow and silky. Add the fried yam to the pot and mix well. Sprinkle with green and red silk and wolfberry grains.

　　3. Yam braised pork: (1) Ingredients: 400 grams of yam, 500 grams of pork belly with skin, appropriate amounts of vegetables, garlic, star anise, refined salt, soy sauce, white sugar, tofu milk, wet starch, clear soup, and vegetable oil. (2) Method: Peel the yam and cut it into sections; cook the pork in a pot of boiling water until it is about seven or eight times mature, take it out, spread it with soy sauce and color it evenly, chop the star anise into mince, and pound the garlic into a puree; use a small bowl to add minced garlic, refined salt, white sugar, minced star anise, fermented bean curd juice, and soy sauce to make a juice, and then process it in the pot. First, add vegetable oil to the pot, and when it is 80% hot, fry the yams in the oil and remove the pure oil; then put the pork in the pot and fry until red, remove the pure oil, let cool, and cut into pieces the same size as the yams; then put the meat into the minced garlic sauce Mix well in the oil and marinate slightly. Place the meat skin side down and the yams in a large bowl, put it in a steamer and steam until it is cooked. Take it out, put green vegetables on the bottom, and place the meat on a plate. Pour the remaining juice into the pot, add clear soup and soy sauce, bring to a boil, thicken with wet starch, and pour it on the meat.

　　4. Yam longevity chicken: (1) Ingredients: 50 grams of yam, one hen, 100 grams of red dates, 50 grams of millet seeds, 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 30 grams of lotus seeds, appropriate amounts of onions, ginger, pepper, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, and cooking wine. (2) Method: After the chicken is slaughtered and depilated, make a small opening under the armpit, take out the internal organs and wash them; wash, peel and cut the yams into slices, remove the cores and wash the red dates, remove the shells from the millet seeds, and use the lotus seeds. blister Soft, remove the lotus core, wash the Codonopsis pilosula, chop the green onion and ginger evenly, add refined salt to the pan and lightly fry; then cook: put the yam slices, jujubes, millet, lotus seeds, Codonopsis pilosula, pepper, refined salt and cooking wine into the chicken belly. Fold the legs down, put the chicken head up, put it in a basin, add an appropriate amount of water, put it in a steamer and steam it until the chicken is cooked, take it out, sprinkle with chopped green onion and ginger, add refined salt and MSG to adjust the taste and serve.