Yam is a kind of ingredient that has a sticky and smooth taste and is also a very effective medicine. Chinese medicine pays attention to the homologous medicine and food, and yam is a representative food of this concept.
Yam efficacy
"Chinese Pharmacopoeia" introduces yam, Gan, Ping. Return to the spleen, lung, kidney.
Function and Indications: Replenishing the spleen and nourishing the stomach, promoting the lungs and tonifying the kidneys. For spleen deficiency food, long-term diarrhea, lung deficiency and asthma, kidney deficiency and nocturnal emission, bring down, frequent urination, virtual heat and thirst. Bran fried yam to nourish the spleen and stomach. For spleen deficiency, less diarrhea, diarrhea, vaginal discharge.
Modern medicine has proven that the "yam polysaccharide" in Chinese yam can eliminate free radicals and relieve inflammation.
So, what effect does yam have on kidney disease?
Yam can reduce urine protein, reduce blood creatinine
Yam can not only reduce urine protein and urinary occult blood in patients with nephritis, but also reduce serum creatinine and urea nitrogen in patients with renal failure and protect the kidney.
The role of yam is so magical because it contains a component called yam polysaccharide. Yam polysaccharide can eliminate oxygen free radicals, resist oxidation, enhance immunity, prevent cancer, and delay aging. Many studies have confirmed the effects of yam polysaccharides on kidney disease, such as sugar kidney and ischemic kidney disease:
Yam polysaccharide may be therapeutic by inhibiting a protein called "MCP-1". (Note: MCP-1, the renal tissue monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, excessive secretion of this protein can cause inflammation and damage to the kidney)
Not only that, the therapeutic effect of Chinese yam on kidney disease is also reflected in its "rule of cure": yam polysaccharide can not only reduce the incidence of kidney inflammation, but also reduce free radical production. Excessive free radicals in the human body are the root cause of many chronic inflammations such as chronic kidney disease and diabetes, and are also the chief culprit in causing human aging.
Yam reduces free radicals, inhibits kidney inflammation, and lowers proteinuria and serum creatinine, thus protecting the kidneys.
Therefore, no matter what kind of chronic kidney disease, including patients after kidney transplantation, you can eat two or three yams every day, as long as it is not excessive.