Shan Yao
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Name: Chinese Yam (山藥)
Pinyin: Shan Yao
Pharm. Name: Rhizoma Dioscoreae
Properties:
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Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
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Sweet |
Tonify qi, nourish yin, and tonify spleen, lung, and kidney. |
Kidney |
Description:
It is indicated for poor appetite with loose stool, diarrhea due to spleen qi deficiency, especially for both spleen qi and yin deficiency, or needing tonifying but failure in the transportation of spleen due to weakness after illness, because it can tonify both qi and yin of the spleen, and it is astringent in the property. It also helps in curing Lung qi deficiency syndromes, Kidney deficiency syndromes, For diabetes due to both qi and yin deficiency.