What to do if my hands itch after eating yam

People who often buy vegetables know that there are two common types of yam, one thick and one thin. One of them is relatively soft, which is what we often call yam that can be used to make soup. Yams are not expensive, but they are very nutritious and look good when cooked, so they are very popular among people. Yam is easy to cook, but washing yam is a problem. Because there is mucus on the yam, the mucus will get on your hands when you peel it, which will cause itchy hands. What should you do in this case?

1. Apply ginger

Apply some ginger juice immediately after itching to quickly relieve itching. Because ginger contains volatile oils that can promote blood circulation, warm the body and excite nerves.

2. Fire roasting

Roast your hands over the fire and turn them over and over to warm them. This will break down any saponin that has seeped into your hands. But when using this method, be careful not to burn your skin.

3. Apply vinegar

If you feel itchy, wash your hands carefully, then dip them in vinegar, even in the gaps between your nails. After a while, the itching will gradually disappear! (Reason: acid-base neutralization)

4. Freezing

Just put your hands in the refrigerator and freeze them. However, the editor does not recommend this as the effect is not very obvious and it is easy to get frostbite on your hands.

The efficacy of yam

Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies. It is used to treat fever caused by febrile diseases, bloody diarrhea due to heat toxins, carbuncles, swellings, scrofula, and hemorrhoids.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Clears away heat, relieves various sores, carbuncles on the back, and scrofula.

2. "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs" says: It can eliminate carbuncle, furuncle and furuncle poison, stop dysentery, wash rickets, and remove blood heat from the skin.

3. "Bencao Beiyao": nourishes blood and quenches thirst, treats scabies.

4. Chongqing Hall Essays: Clears wind, fire, dampness and heat in the meridians, relieves febrile epidemics, filth and evil, calms the floating wind and yang of the liver and gallbladder, and treats convulsions, epilepsy and other symptoms.

5. Guangzhou Army’s “Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines”: clears heat and detoxifies.

It is used to treat exogenous fever and cough, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, mumps, sepsis, sores, boils, appendicitis, traumatic infection, and prickly heat in children.

Making yam into herbal tea can prevent heatstroke, colds and intestinal infectious diseases.

The role of yam

1. Hypoglycemic effect

2. Regulate the body's response to non-specific stimuli

3. Impact on immune function

4. Effects on small intestinal motility in mice

Yam has the effect of stimulating small intestine movement and promoting the emptying of intestinal contents.

5. Other nutrients it contains are related to mucus and amylase, have a nourishing effect and can aid digestion. Antidiarrhea. Expectorant.

Apart from the fact that it may be troublesome to process, yam is a very good tonic. It can even be used as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat some human diseases. Although the yams we usually eat have no medicinal value, they have great edible value. So we might as well cook some yams to eat, which is both healthy and affordable.