The effect of yam in strengthening the intestine

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Clears heat and detoxifies.

It is used to treat fever caused by febrile diseases, bloody diarrhea due to heat toxins, carbuncles, swellings, scrofula, and hemorrhoids.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Clears away heat, relieves various sores, carbuncles on the back, and scrofula.

② "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs"; it can eliminate carbuncle, furuncle and furuncle poison, stop dysentery, wash rickets, and remove skin blood heat.

③ "Bencao Beiyao": nourishes blood and quenches thirst.

Treat scabies.

④ "Chongqing Hall Essays": Clears wind, fire, dampness and heat in the meridians, relieves febrile epidemics, filth and evil, calms the floating wind and yang of the liver and gallbladder, and treats convulsions, epilepsy and other symptoms.

⑤ Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": clears heat and detoxifies.

It is used to treat exogenous fever and cough, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, mumps, sepsis, sores, boils, appendicitis, traumatic infection, and prickly heat in children.

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

The second effect of yam in strengthening the intestines

1. Hypoglycemic effect

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

3. Impact on immune function

4. Effects on small intestinal motility in mice

20 Kunming mice were divided into 2 groups and fasted for 24 hours. The experimental group was given 10ml of yam decoction (containing 1g/ml of crude drug) + 0.5g of activated carbon (commercially available), and the control group was given 10ml of normal saline + 0.5g of activated carbon, respectively. After 20 minutes, the mice were immediately killed by spinal dislocation, the small intestine was taken out and flattened, and the distance (cm) pushed by the carbon powder 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 showed that yam has the effect of stimulating small intestinal movement and promoting the emptying of intestinal contents.

5. Other nutrients contained in it are related to mucus and amylase, which have a nourishing effect and can aid digestion, stop diarrhea and eliminate phlegm.