The role and efficacy of Smilax glabra

There are many common foods in life. Foods can not only fill the stomach, but also help treat diseases. For example, yam contains a lot of vitamins and potassium. It has many functions in treating diseases. It helps prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, you can choose it with confidence. What are the functions and effects of Chinese yam?

What are the effects and functions of wild yam? This kind of food is quite helpful to the human body. When choosing it, you should have a good understanding of it so that it will not cause too much harm to your health when eating it.

The role and efficacy of Tu Fuling:

Dehumidifies, detoxifies, and unclogs joints. It is used for limb cramps and muscle and bone pain caused by damp-heat stranguria, leucorrhea, carbuncle, scrofula, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning.

1. Syphilis. Use four ounces of wild yam and seven soap beans, boil them in water and drink as tea.

2. Bone spasm and carbuncle (pain in the tendons and bones, which ulcerate and become carbuncle, which lasts for years and becomes a lifelong disability). Use one or two liang of wild yam. If there is heat, add Scutellaria baicalensis and Coptis chinensis. If there is qi deficiency, add Sijunzi Decoction. If there is blood deficiency, add Siwu Decoction. Boil them in water and drink as tea.

3. Scrofula ulceration. Slice the wild yam, or grind it into powder, decoct it in water or add it to porridge. It’s better to eat more.

Notice

Patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency should take with caution.

① "Wan's Family Prescriptions": Do not use iron tools.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": Avoid drinking tea when taking the medicine.

③ "Bencao Congxin": Do not take it if you have liver and kidney yin deficiency.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of the role and efficacy of wild yam, so you can rest assured when choosing it, but you must eat it in moderation. Any good food should not be eaten too much, as this will cause serious harm to your health.