Wonder yam cures infertility in women

This is good news for women who have not been able to conceive! There is a specie of yam, known as ‘wild yam,’ which, if combined with certain herbs, enhances and fertilizes women reproductive system.
According to a herbal practitioner, Dr Adetunji Lams, though, neglected because of its small size, “wild yam” combined with some local vegetables, like, winter cherry or koropo in Yoruba language, has the potentialities of making women fertile.

Dr Lams said: “It has to be prepared in a herbal form before it can give the desired result. For it to be effective, few things have to be taken care of.”
According to Dr Lams, some of the things which need to be done include, ensuring that the woman (patient) is treated of infections, fibroid if any.

In the case of men, he said tests are usually carried out to ascertain whether low sperm count, staphylococcus, pelvic inflammatory disease were responsible for the infertility.
After carrying out tests and treating the identified infections, Dr Lams said the stage is now set to administer the herbal medicine prepared with “wild yam.”

“It is even possible that the woman will later deliver twins,” he said.
Lams explained that yams, especially wild ones, are associated with fertility. No wonder, therefore, the Yoruba are said to have the highest number of twins in the world.

The herbal practitioner said most of the foods eaten by the Yoruba are prepared from yam tuber. He gave the names of the food as amala, iyan, akara, moimoi, roasted and yam porridge. He said because of yam consumption, Yoruba women are fertile while the men are usually sexually active.
The herbal practitioner told Daily Sun that “wild yam” is useful that its head region is used to cure lumps in the breasts of women, especially when mixed with honey, Aloe Vera or sheer butter.
“Most of the health disorders we operate on in this part of the world can be cured perfectly using herbs.
Women, who like to enlarge their breasts through operation need not to do that any longer as a combination of a herb, called “horse tail” and wild yam will do the magic.

More about the wild yam
It is everywhere, very common, but useful to those who know its importance. Since the yam is not big, like other species, people tend to ignore it. But the wild yam is medicinal. It is not planted by anybody, it grows on its own.

How it works
When mixed with the necessary herbs, wild yam acts like compose manure in women’s reproductive system. It boosts the fertility level in women. It is faster to conceive if a woman continues to eat wild yam. A woman that experiences miscarriage is also advised to eat wild yam.
It is a remedy for miscarriages. If pregnant woman, especially, the one that has been having problem of miscarriages, eats wild yam mixed with other herbs it will stop automatically. It helps to support the uterus. It is an excellent preventive medicine for miscarriages and useful for cramps in the region of the uterus during the later stage of the pregnancy.

Wild yam helps to relax the muscular fibres and soothe the nerves. It boosts the sperm, in terms of its quantity and quality. A wild yam enhances sexual performance in men because it contains steroids that store peroxidation of blood lipids (the principal cause of thickening or hardening of arteries or veins). The wonder yam also lowers the level of fat in the blood and very rich in potassium, which makes it very appropriate for heart diseases. Wild yam can also be used to manage or cure stroke.

Importance of information
People die a lot because of ignorance. Nature has provided many herbs for man’s use but many people are ignorant of their uses, just like in the case of wild yam. It is the amount of information that one gets that matters. Most of those curative herbs, fruits, tubers among others have been provided by nature but we are ignorant of them because of lack of information.

By CHRIS ANUCHA
Tuesday, February 19, 2008