Sweet Potato

Sweet potato is unique among comfort foods for its relative lightness. Unlike other comfort foods, sweet potatoes feel light in the stomach, while still being nourishing. Sweet potato is supportive for digestion and contains ample fiber to encourage good elimination. Besides simple starches, sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates, which mean these roots can satisfy the appetite for long stretches. 

Properties

Taste: sweet

Natural Attributes: Light, Expansive, Oily

Tissue impact (Vipak): Nourishing 

Thermal impact (Virya): Cooling

Dosha impact: Decreases Vata and pitta, slightly Increases Kapha 

Digestive impact (Agni): easy to digest

Channels (Srotas): obstructs

Feces: moves

Urine: 

Strength (Bala): Improves strength

Mind (Manas): sattvic

Effect: nutritive, spleen tonic, ophthalmic, livotonic

Chinese five element impact: Earth

Chinese medicine syndromes: Spleen Qi Deficiency, Kidney Yin Deficiency, Lung Dryness

Medicinal properties 

• Nourishment (rasa): lactation, gaining weight, satisfying the sweet tooth, the weak and deficient
• Blood-circulation-liver: night blindness
• Kidney-Bladder: dry inflammations
• Respiratory system: deficient lungs
• Digestive system: constipation, improves bowel movement, intestinal inflammation, stomach and duodenal ulcers, hemorrhoids 
• Cleansing: removes toxins

Harmful for: indigestion abdominal swelling, candida