Yam Vine (Dioscorea cirrhosa)

薯莨shǔ làngShulang

Dioscorea cirrhosa · Plant

Dioscorea, standing in for Dioscorea cirrhosa
This photo shows Dioscorea, not Dioscorea cirrhosa: Wikimedia Commons has no freely licensed photo of it. Photo: Kod B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indications
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With studies in people

The catalogue records no caution for this entry. That is not evidence that it is safe.

Indications

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

Constipation SyndromeInflammation SyndromeSwelling Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit DiureticBenefit Laxative

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Dioscorea cirrhosa 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 Diuretic0 records
  • Benefit Laxative0 records
  • Constipation Syndrome0 records
  • Inflammation Syndrome1 records
  • Swelling Syndrome0 records