What are the effects of Chinese yam?

Wild yam is a relatively common Chinese medicine, and it is a very widely used medicinal material. It contains powerful ingredients, has special therapeutic effects on the treatment of some diseases, and also has very good health care effects. It is very beneficial to the body. What are the effects of wild yam? Let’s take a look at the explanation below. I hope everyone can understand.

Smilax glabra, a traditional Chinese medicine name. It is the dried rhizome of the Liliaceae plant Smilax glabra. It is a perennial evergreen climbing shrub that grows mostly on hillsides or under forests. Only the dried rhizomes are selected for medicinal use. It is usually dug up in summer and autumn, the fibrous roots are removed, washed and dried for use as medicine; or it can be cut into thin slices while fresh, dried and used as medicine. Sweet, light taste, neutral nature. It has the effects of detoxification, removal of dampness, and unblocking joints. It is mainly used for limb cramps, muscle and bone pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning; damp-heat stranguria, leucorrhea, carbuncle, scrofula, and scabies.

The efficacy of Tu Fuling can be described in the following two points:

1. Treat blood-heat headache, sore throat, heavy menstrual bleeding and other female blood diseases: use Chinese yam with honeysuckle, terminalia chebula, gardenia, Toosendan fruit, coptis root and superbus.

2. Treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea: Use wild yam with honeysuckle, lithospermum officinale, madder, loquat leaf, aconite (processed), terminalia chebula, gardenia, white cloud fragrance, flax seed, safflower, superbus, and black cloud fragrance.

The processing method of Tu Fuling:

For those that have not been sliced, soak, wash, moisten thoroughly, cut into thin slices, and dry. The wild yam is in the form of oblong or irregular slices with uneven edges. The cut surface is off-white to light reddish brown, powdery, with visible dot-like vascular bundles and numerous small bright spots; it feels slimy when moistened with water. It has a faint smell and tastes slightly sweet and astringent.