Can sweet potatoes nourish kidney and strengthen yang?

In traditional Chinese medicine theory, sweet potato generally can tonify kidney and yang, but the effect is weak. Traditional

Chinese medicine believes that sweet potato is sweet and flat, enters the spleen and kidney meridians, and has a certain effect of tonifying kidney and yang, but this effect is weak and cannot completely replace drugs or other treatment methods. In addition, tonifying kidney and yang is not the main effect of sweet potato, but it is more often considered as a kind of laxative, spleen, qi and blood tonic food.

For men, if you need tonify kidney and yang, you should first clarify the cause, and then treat under the guidance of a professional doctor. In terms of diet, you can properly eat foods beneficial to kidney, such as pig kidney, leek, etc., but the effect of diet is limited, and you cannot completely rely on food to treat diseases.