Abstract:Dioscoreais a kind of quite important economic crops, of which 30 species have higher content in diosgenin among Dioscoreathat are important raw material of making steroidal medicine. Thestudy onform classification, geographical distribution, planting,tissue culture of Dioscorea, its uses in herb medicine, keepinghealthy, food and exploitation of its industrial raw materials were analyzed and evaluated in this paper and someproblemsof its culturing and further utilization were also pointed out.