Wild Yam.Dioscorea villosa and Phytochemicals.

Contents

• Botanical Basic data of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Botanical Description of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Properties of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Wild Yam and Its Phytochemicals.
• Discover of disgenin from Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Food and Pharmaceutical Uses of Wild Yam:Huai Shan Yao.
• What is hormone banlancing mechanism? Wild Yam act as hormone balancer,diosgenin as substitution of progesterone.
• Breast Enlargement effect of Diosgenin as phytoestrogens.
• Why should Women Use Wild Yam?
• Therapeutic Action,Pharmacology and application of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa and diosgenin.
• Dosage Recomments,Safety Toxicity and Administrations.
• Conclusions and summary.
• Final report of the amended safety assessment of Dioscorea Villosa Wild Yam root extract.
• Uses based on scientific evidence.
• Diosgenin and Wild Yam Research Update.
• Dioscorea Use in Chinese Medicine.
• How Search engine think about Diosgenin and Yam.
• Research update.
• Photo Gallery of Dioscorea villosa.

Food and Pharmaceutical Uses of Wild Yam:Huai Shan Yao.:

Huai Shan Yao:Character Note and Uses:

 Huai Shan Yao is a folk pin yin name of wild Yam root(Dioscorea Villosa) origined from Huai Qin area of He Nan province,China.and this herb has no big difference from wild yam origins from other area of China,only the special environmental conditions brings Huai Shan Yao some better property.

 Huai Shan Yao is a very precious commonly used traditional chinese herb medicine suggested and canonized by herbalists ancient till today,and it got a good name "Longevity Gene",a fine material for both remedy material and food.As a commonly recipes in TCM, it combined with other herbs to formalate many kind of decoction tincture and pills with fine effects, such as Liu Wei Di Huang Wan(Six Herb Rhemannia Complex Pill),Jin Kui Shen Qi Wan,Shu Yu Wan,etc.

 As a vegetable and food,it takes smooth and flavor,good food source for famine,good material for delicious dish,such as Ba Si Shan Yao(Wild Yam Piece Stir-fry Dish),Mi Zhi Shan Yao(Wild Yam Honey Piece),Zao Ni Shan Yao(Wild Yam Plus Jujube Fruit Mashed),Hu Pi Shan Yao,Jin Qian Shan Yao,Ba Bao Shan Yao Ni,Shan Yao Fu Lin Bao Zi,Shan Yao Tang Yuan,Yi Pin Shan Yao,Shan Yao Juan,etc.

 A book named Shan Yao Zhi Bai Bing(Wild Yam Treat Hundreds of Disease) written by Shi Renchao,properties of wild yam noted as tonify weakness,nurish speeln and stomach,tonify Qy and nurish blood,grow Yin and strong Yang,support positive and drive away evil,physical strong and beautify skin and appearance,25 kinds of application method,70 kinds of disease treatment with wild yam combination and 400 recipes of wild yam noted.

 The root of Wild Yam contains saponins,mucilage,yam alkaloids,batatasine,choline,starch,glycoprotein,free amino acid,Polyphenol Oxidase(PPO),abscisin,Vitamin C,mucilage of wild yam contains mannocarolose,Phytic acid,3,4-Hydroxyphenylethylamine;carbon,Allantion,iodin,16 kinds of amino acid,iron,copper,zinc,manganese,calcium and other trace minerals.Wild Yam fruit contains dioscin,diosgenin,abscisin,dopamine and another kind of phenolic phytochemical.

 Medicianl properties of wild Yam identified as: taste sweet characteristics,calm peace,no poison,benefit spleen,nurish lung and kidney,protection brain,boost sperm and beautify skin,anti-aging,anti-tumor,anti-fatigue and stress,prevent damage from allergen,adjust metabolism,boost immune system,prompet growth,adjust internal secretion,regulate function of heart and kidney,exciting blood system,peace and adjust mental systems.


 Main treat for spleen weak,chronic diarrhoea,weak fatigue and cough,prevent thirsty and spermatorrhea,frequent pee.

Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing take wild yam as top grade herb,"wild yam as herb monarch,main for nurish life,no poison,no hurt if taken large amount and long period.Light body and benefit Qi,longevity and extending age.".

Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing

main for wound hurt,nurish weak and excess,drive away cold heat evil,tonify body,strong physical strength,grow muscle,strong Yin,acute hearing and bright eyes if taken long days...wild yam mashed and stick to wound of turgescence and poison,cure in several days.

Ben Cao Gang Mu

Tonify five fatigue and seven wound,drive away cold and calm mind,peace soul,tonify heart qi,increase memory.

Mign Yi Bie Lu

 Tradition of wild yam use in China begans from 2000 B.C.,folk people of China area used it as a remedy for longevity.Legend said Shen Nong Huangdi of the middle earth fighting and defeated the devil named Chi You from south barbarism,Huangdi got a disease for too many stress and fighting,many herbs no cure,yet he got cured until takes some wild yam of Zhang Huai Di mountain.Historical materials from Dunhuang Mogao hole registered formula named " Immortal Porridge": "wild yam root 500 grams,braize cooked and peel off,Chicken head 250 grams,boil cooked and smash into powder.Put rice half litre,boil with slow fire to porridge,take it before meal.",This immortal porridge recipes got songed by poet Lu You of Song Dynasty,"Shi Ren Ge Ge Xue Chang Nian,Bu Wu Chang Nian Zai Mu Qian,Wu De Wan Yan Ping Yi Fa,Zhi Jiang Shi Zhou Zhi Sheng Xian.(Mortals all learn to live long,yet all does not know longevity comes to present,i got the easy way of Wan Yan,simply takes the porridge to immortal.)"

 This poem overdraws the effects of Immortal Porridge of Wild Yam,yet the longevity and appetite adjustment property of wild yam is sure and no doubt.There are many other poems song for wild yam,another example such as Yu Yan Zan(Poem for Jade Prolong):"Elixir herb hide in Mountains,origins from immortal recipes,cut several pieces of jade like root,clear white and flower smells."


 Huai Shan Yao and China Classics:
 

 There are many herbalists in Chine recommed wild yam as important spice,.who used it alot and canonize it the most is famous doctor Zhang Xi Chun of present age,in his famous book Yi Xue Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu(Combined Medicine Record of TCM and West Medicine),175 proved recipes introduced,among 141 of them for internal medicine crude wild yam recipes shares 49,shares 35%,according to ill state,adjust the combination,good use for treatment of Yin weakness and fatigue heat,Yang weakness,gasp,more haematemesis,vomit,cholera, chronic diarrhea, thirsty prevention,etc,positive result got.Doctor Zhang suggest and recommeded food remedy recipes especially, and listed 6 types of porridge of wild yam, such as Zhu Yu Er Bao Zhou,Shu Yu Ban Xia Zhou(Wild yam plus Pinellia Tuber porridge),Shu Yu Ji Zi Huang Zhou(wild yam plus chicken porridge),San Bao Zhou(three precious porridge),etc,in these porridge recipes,no rice added,instead of rice,use wild yam,and the porridge comes as porridge without rice,

For example,a case,"White Tiger Plus Ginseng with wild yam instead of rice soup",he explains:"White tiger soup added ginseng,plus wild yam instaed of rice,this soup tonify Qi,drive off evil,prvent thirsty and brings saliva, nurish Yin and drive off heat,really and complete recipes.",he added,wild yam porridge "must use the crude wild yam to boil,the fried yam piece can not boil to porridge.",so any recipes with wild yam of Doctor Zhang Xichun,crude yam used but not the fried yam,he added:"Huai Shan Yao benefit both spleen and kidney,clear the upper organ and strong the lower organ,boost pee and stop stool,and its a common food for taken,use this as a porridge,add some granulated sugar to mix,child prefer it,i use this recipe cure many kind of child disease,never negelect it simply because it is a common food.",Doctor Zhang ever used wild yam 180 grams cure a women after child birth,3 days cured yet other doctors no methods,he added,use wild yam large dose,serious disease got treated.

Yi Xue Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu(Combined Medicine Record of TCM and West Medicine)

Yao Jian(Recipe Identification) noted:To cure weaknesses and harm,five fatigue and seven wound,benefit physical strength,nurish skin boost muscle,strong bone and muscle,drive off cold and evil,away swimming,wise mind and bright eyes,prevent impotence...

Yao Jian(Recipe Identification)

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• Wild Yam.Dioscorea villosa and Phytochemicals.

This article written and edited via herbalist of MDidea Extracts Professional. They run a range of online descriptions about this herb,including general information related and summarized updating discoveries from findings of professional scientisits this field related.Describe style aimed to form a useful detecting literature space where the intertwined threshold and related questions raise out and visualize themselves.

♣ last edit date:08th,Oct.2010.