What are the effects of soaking water with Chinese yam?

Smilax glabra is a common Chinese medicinal material. It is a perennial evergreen climbing shrub. Most of them grow on hillsides or under forests and are usually harvested in summer and autumn. Wild yam has the function of detoxifying and removing dampness, and is beneficial to joints. It can be used to make soup or soak in water. Soaking wild yam in water is a common method of use. So, what are the functions and effects of soaking wild yam in water?

Chinese yam cooked with old turtle is very nutritious. Wild yam is a good medicine for detoxification and removal of dampness. Turtle meat is sweet and warm. Old turtles are strong in nourishing yin and blood, while young turtles are weak in nourishing yin. Therefore, when adding it to the soup, "it is better to use old rather than young". Add 3 kg of water, boil it over high heat first, and then simmer it over low heat for 5 hours. If you encounter carbuncles or swellings, you can add raw Rehmannia root to enhance the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. In addition, there are black chicken stewed with ginseng, duck stewed with tangerine peel and lotus seeds, spare ribs stewed with yam, Euryale ferox and coix seed, grass carp stewed with kudzu vine and red bean, spine stewed with selfheal and soybean, lean meat stewed with Scrophularia and Ophiopogon japonicus, and pork stomach stewed with Atractylodes macrocephala and Amomum villosum.

Smilax glabra is a traditional Chinese medicine that can remove dampness and heat and promote humidity. It has a good therapeutic effect on people with symptoms of damp-heat: eczema, red and hot carbuncles, heavy limbs, sticky stools, and yellow and smelly urine. However, drinking it for a long time will easily cause the loss of vital energy and urine, and make the body weak. All diuretic and heat-clearing Chinese medicines can easily damage the body's positive energy. Therefore, you can stop taking the medicine when the symptoms are significantly alleviated.

Smilax glabra is sweet, cool in nature and non-toxic. Treat syphilis, stranguria, muscle and bone spasms, athlete's foot, furunculosis, carbuncle, and scrofula. Bone spasm, carbuncle and fistula (pain in muscles and bones, ulceration, carbuncle that accumulates for months and causes lifelong disability). Use two liang of wild yam, add Rhizoma Coptidis and Coptis chinensis. For qi deficiency, add Sijun Decoction. For blood deficiency, add Siwu Decoction, boil in water and drink as tea: use four liang of wild yam, two liang of Siwu Decoction, seven soap beans, forty-nine Sichuan peppercorns and seven lantern roots, boil in water and drink as tea.

The above is an introduction to the effects of soaking Chinese yam in water. It can be seen that Chinese yam has a good effect on diuresis and dehumidification. If symptoms such as ureteral obstruction and bladder inflammation occur in life, you can use Chinese yam soaked in water to relieve them, which will have a good effect. However, the use of medicinal materials must be under the guidance of a doctor.