Panthaica (scientific name: Dioscorea panthaica) is yam yam plants of the genus, is China's endemic plants. Distributed in mainland China, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan and other places, growing at an altitude of 1,000 meters to 3,500 meters in the area, often grown in hillside shrub forest, jungle hillside forest edge or roadsides, has not yet introduced by artificial seed cultivation.
Alias: turmeric, turmeric grass, Anemarrhena yam, small post turmeric, ginger tiger
Source: yam yam panthaica genus Dioscorea panthaica Prain et Burk, with rhizomes medicine. Fall collection, washed and dried.
Taste: sweet, slightly acrid, flat.
Indications: detoxification swelling, and pain. For stomach pain, bruises; topical treatment of lymph node tuberculosis
Yam (Dioscoreae) formerly known as yam, is a sprawling roots of plants, there are Huai Shan (yam), yam, mountain potato, sweet potato and other names. Distributed in tropical, subtropical and around the world, by 1991 more than twenty million tons of global production statistics. Taiwan imported African yam species, species in Southeast Asia, Central and South American species and European species, sub-planted throughout Taiwan, mostly spherical, massive, oval, long columnar four. Long potato type (yam family) origin than the cold (mainland, northern Taiwan, Central Beige white meat, yellow and purple skin and purple flesh meat, rich in eggs White matter amino acids and polysaccharides clayey, delicious and nutritious meat, can promote the body's normal growth and repair and other health functions. Yam variety of amino acids and plant hormones can make the body tissue function to maintain a normal life, not easy to cancerous cell cancer. Contains nine amino acids the human body can not be made, can be absorbed by the body, update cell metabolism bad cells, the cell mutation rate. Because it contains mucilage polysaccharide (viscous polysaccharids) into the gastrointestinal tract, can promote decomposition and absorption of protein and starch. Mucus polysaccharides and organic salts in combination, can maintain bone and cartilage elasticity and beneficial for patients with bone cancer and bone diseases. Containing fiber, can promote gastrointestinal motility, such as intestinal information can prevent tumors, colorectal and gastric cancer. Containing more than nine amino acid hydrolysis, the best choice for vegetarian vegetable protein intake