Silver Yam (Dioscorea alata)

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Silver Yam for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Silver Yam does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Dioscorea alata and the indication, and how many of those are indexed as studies in people. A record names the two together; it does not show that one treats the other, and most are laboratory or animal work.

• Benefit Antioxidant20 records, 5 in people
• Benefit Digestive4 records, 1 in people
• Benefit Immune9 records, 1 in people
• Benefit Kidney1 records
• Fatigue Syndrome0 records

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