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Wild Yam |
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Wild Yam is a tropical plant of Central America with bulky tuberous roots. Wild Yam is part of the family of the yams which have tubers which are the basis of the diet of the populations from these areas of the sphere. The tubers are collected every 2 or 3 years and we consume them after cooking.
History: Wild Yam is traditionally used, since the oldest times, in the tropical areas of the sphere. The Aztecs and the Mayas used Wild Yam as a medicinal plant and it was traditionally used to relieve the ovarian and menstrual pains.
Moreover, one noticed, in these areas where it is consumed, that the symptoms associated with the menopause were seldom present there, even sometimes completely absent. This phenomenon was explained by a particular way of life but especially by the local diet, largely composed of Wild Yam or related tubers.
Components: The tubers of Wild Yam are particularly rich in starch and phytohormones. Indeed, they contain precursors of natural hormones, mainly the diosgenin, precursor of progesterone. This hormone is overdrawn in the woman’s body in period of pre-menopause, period which happens a few years before the menopause. The pre-menopause is characterized by the appearance of hot flushes, the irregularity of the periods...
The principal hormono-active substances present in the plant are estrogenic.
Indeed, the extracts of dioscorea villosa contain significant quantities of the diosgenin substance.
The diogenin can be used to synthesize the steroid hormones containing progesterone.
This discovery led to the first oral contraceptives (anovulents) commercially available.
Wild Yam has effects on ageing. It contains precursors ("Booster rockets") of the DHEA, this hormone of youth which decreases in the body from about thirty.
Wild Yam is traditionally used to support the female wellbeing in menstrual periods and in the period of the pre-menopause.
Be careful, the use of Wild Yam can be associated to a medical hormonal treatment but cannot replace it, especially without medical opinion. The consumption of Wild Yam is direcommended to the pregnant woman or in period of breast feeding.
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