The medicinal value of Gastrodia elata is underground tuber, which is oblong, slightly flat, slightly wrinkled and slightly curved, with bright red or dark brown residual stems at one end and round umbilical root marks at the other end. Generally, each piece is 6 ~10cm long and 2 ~ 5cm in diameter. The surface layer is yellow-white or light yellow-black-brown, with many longitudinal wrinkles, hard texture and similar appearance and texture. After cutting, the cross section is flat, without chemical fiber spots, transparent and horny, shiny, bitter and sweet, and chewy, while the cross section of Phytolacca acinosa root is uneven, dark in color, chemical fiber-like, slightly bitter and chewy. It is desirable to have a solid material, without weight, without holes.

Gastrodia elata is not suitable for confinement. Gastrodia elata has sedative, anticonvulsant, antiepileptic and bile metabolism promoting effects, but it also has certain toxic effects.

Can you eat gastrodia elata in confinement?

The efficacy of gastrodia elata:

1, soothing the liver and calming the wind. Gastrodia elata moistens and produces fluid, benefits qi and nourishes blood, and stops wind. Can be used for treating headache and dizziness caused by deficiency of both qi and blood and liver wind, and can also be used for infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus.

2, the hurricane stops the pain. Used for dizziness, headache, numbness of limbs and hemiplegia caused by wind phlegm.

Gastrodia elata is suitable for dizziness caused by internal wind. There are three kinds of headaches caused by internal wind: one is hyperactivity of liver yang, and symptoms: headache and dizziness appear separately. Second, phlegm resistance, symptoms: I often feel my head is heavy. Third, patients with kidney deficiency, symptoms: headache and dizziness with memory loss. Gastrodia elata is not suitable for headache and dizziness caused by fever and cold.

Gastrodia elata has sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant effects. It can improve cerebral blood volume, reduce the friction resistance of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, slightly close cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and increase the total flow of coronary arteries. It can lower blood pressure, slow the heartbeat and maintain myocardial ischemia. The sugar content of gastrodia elata is immune-specific.