红薯,又称甘薯、番薯、山芋等,红薯生食脆甜,可代替水果;熟食甘甜,它既可作主食,又可当蔬菜,蒸、煮、煎、炸、熘,吃法颇多。中医学认为,红薯味甘性平,补脾益气。《本草纲目》记载,红薯有“补虚乏、益气力、健胃、强肾阴”的功效,使人“长寿少疾”。当代《中华本草》说其“补中和血、益气生津、宽肠胃、通便秘。主治脾虚水肿、疮疡肿毒、肠燥便秘”。 Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, sweet potato, potato, sweet potato raw crisp sweet, can replace the fruit; cooked sweet, it can be used as staple food, but also when the vegetables, steamed, boiled, fried, fried, stir, eat a lot. Chinese medicine believes that sweet potato sweet nature, spleen Qi. “Compendium of Materia Medica” records, sweet potatoes have “tonic lack, Qi, stomach, strong kidney yin ” effect, people “longevity and less disease ”. Contemporary “Chinese Materia Medica” said its “make up and blood, Qi Sheng Jin, wide stomach, constipation. Indications spleen emphysema, sore swollen poison, dry bowel constipation ”.