Did you lose weight after eating yams?


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It is generally believed that taking yam will not cause thinness, yam, sweet taste, flat nature, return to spleen, lung and kidney meridians, and has the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, promoting body fluid and benefiting lung, tonifying kidney and astringent essence. It can be used to treat fatigue, weakness, anorexia and diarrhea caused by spleen qi deficiency, cough and asthma caused by lung deficiency, soreness of waist and knees and spermatorrhea caused by kidney deficiency. Shennong Materia Medica believes that yam has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, benefiting qi and growing muscles. Generally, traditional Chinese medicine believes that taking yam has the effect of strengthening body. It does not cause weight loss.