Where does the sweet potato buttercup which looks like taro grow? Is it toxic? What if I eat it by mistake?

White yam, also known as bang potato, wild kudzu potato, Dali Wang, etc., its flowering period 4-5 months, fruit period 7-9 months, appearance brown, scattered fibrous roots, fresh section white. So, where does this white yam, which looks like taro, grow? Is it toxic? What if you eat it by mistake?

Where does white yam grow like taro?

White yam is distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Xizang Qamdo and Bomi. Born in thickets or forest margins of ravines below 1500 m; wild or cultivated.

2. Is white lotus toxic? What if you eat it by mistake?

Rhizoma Cirrhosae Cirrhosae contains toxic ingredients diosgenin and diosgenin, belonging to the alkaloid containing lactone ring. After taking the poison, it will cause burning pain in mouth and throat, salivation, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. In severe cases, it will cause dyspnea, cardiac arrest, coma and even death.

In case of accidental ingestion and poisoning symptoms, should be promptly sent to medical institutions for vomiting, gastric lavage, catharsis, infusion, oral administration such as egg white, milk, activated carbon or general antidote, and symptomatic treatment.

Because it is difficult for people to distinguish white yam from edible potato plants, and white yam tuber has strong toxicity, after professional processing can be used as medicine, and should be taken under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine doctors, disease control experts suggest that people, do not pick, process and eat white yam, improve prevention awareness and self-protection ability, prevent white yam poisoning events.