Gastrodia elata can improve the human body’s ability to be hypoxic. Eating Gastrodia elata has a protective effect on workers working in high-temperature and high-altitude areas. So, below is the efficacy of Gastrodia elata and the functions of Gastrodia elata that I will introduce to you. I hope it will be helpful to you.

Effects of Gastrodia elata

1. Alleviating wind and relieving spasm

Gastrodia elata is sweet and cool in taste. It enters the liver and pericardium meridians. It is good at clearing the fire of the pericardium and detoxifying the liver. The heat of the meridian is mainly used to treat internal movement of liver wind, epilepsy and convulsions, wind caused by extreme heat, twitching of limbs, febrile convulsions in children, acute convulsions in children, coma due to strong fever, trismus, twitching of hands and feet, etc. For corresponding diseases, other traditional Chinese medicines need to be combined.

2. Clear the liver and calm the yang

Gastrodia elata has a neutral nature and mainly enters the liver meridian. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as head bloating, headache, dizziness and other symptoms caused by liver fire or liver yang. For corresponding diseases, it needs to be used in conjunction with other traditional Chinese medicines.

3. Qufeng and dredge meridians

Gastrodia elata is sweet and flat in nature. This product has the functions of dispelling wind evil, dredging meridians and relieving pain. When combined with other medicines, it is used to treat hand and foot paralysis, muscle and bone pain, rheumatic arthralgia, limb numbness and other symptoms caused by stroke. Effects of Gastrodia elata

1. Analgesic effect: Gastrodia elata injection made from Gastrodia elata has obvious effects on trigeminal neuralgia, vasculoneural headache, cerebrovascular headache, toxic polyneuritis, etc. analgesic effect.

2. Sedative effect: Some medical units use synthetic gastrodin (gastroside) to treat patients with neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome, and the effective rates are 89.44 and 86.87 respectively. It can inhibit the central nervous system excitability caused by caffeine and enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital.

3. Anticonvulsant effect: Gastrodia elata has certain curative effects on facial nerve convulsions, limb numbness, hemiplegia, epilepsy, etc. It also has the effect of relieving smooth muscle spasm, angina pectoris and biliary colic.

4. Reduce blood pressure: Gastrodia elata can treat high blood pressure. Taking it for a long time can calm the liver and replenish qi, benefit the waist and knees, strengthen muscles and bones, and can also increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, which has a protective effect on the heart.

5. Improve eyesight and enhance intelligence: Gastrodia elata also has the effect of improving eyesight and significantly enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulating effects on the human brain nervous system, and can enhance the resolution ability of the optic nerve. It is currently used as a brain health food or brain health drug for high-altitude flight personnel. Japan uses Gastrodia elata injection to treat Alzheimer's disease, with an effective rate of 81%. Functions and Indications of Gastrodia elata

Gastrodia elata is moist but not drying. It mainly enters the liver meridian and is good at calming the liver and calming wind. It is an important medicine for all diseases with internal movement of liver wind and dizziness, regardless of deficiency or excess.

1. Calming the liver and calming the wind. Gastrodia Gastrodia is moist and liquid, can nourish blood and calm wind. It can treat headaches and dizziness caused by blood deficiency and liver wind. It can also be used for convulsions, epilepsy and tetanus in children.

2. Expel wind and relieve pain. It is used for dizziness, migraine headache, numbness of limbs and hemiplegia caused by wind and phlegm.

Gastrodia elata is suitable for dizziness caused by internal wind. There are three types of headaches caused by internal wind: 1. Hyperactivity of liver yang, symptoms: headache and dizziness at the same time; 2. Blockage of phlegm, symptoms: often feeling like the head is heavy; 3. Patients with kidney deficiency, symptoms: headache Dizziness is accompanied by symptoms of memory loss. Gastrodia elata is not suitable for headaches and dizziness caused by colds.

Gastrodia elata has sedative, analgesic, and anticonvulsant effects; it can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebral vascular resistance, slightly shrink cerebral blood vessels, and increase coronary vascular flow; it can lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate, and have an impact on myocardium. Ischemia has a protective effect; Gastrodia polysaccharide has immune activity. Nutritional value of Gastrodia elata