Gastrodia elata Stewed Pig's Brain is the main character of Gastrodia elata, also known as windward grass, whose roots are used as medicine. Before the winter solstice, it was called "Ma Dong" by diggers, and its quality was the best. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Gastrodia elata is good at calming the liver, calming the wind, expelling wind and relieving pain. All dizziness and headache symptoms caused by wind-induced liver movement or wind-phlegm blocking collaterals, regardless of deficiency or excess, are essential drugs. Modern pharmacological studies have found that Gastrodia elata has sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant pharmacological effects, which can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebrovascular resistance, slightly contract cerebral blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow, lower blood pressure, slow heart rate and protect myocardial ischemia.

Gastrodia elata combined with Radix Angelicae Dahuricae can treat both symptoms and root causes of head wind disease with synergistic effect. In addition, pig brain is used as food to induce menstruation, and Lycium barbarum can nourish liver and kidney and improve the taste of soup. This soup can be used as an auxiliary treatment for patients with head wind disease in winter.

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Stewed pig brain with gastrodia elata;

Step 1: Put the prepared fresh pig brain into a bowl.

Step 2: Pour clear water into the bowl for preparing pig brain.

Step 3: Gently stir the red fascia with your hands.

Step 4: Pull up the red fascia and tear it off, so that the red fascia can be easily separated.

Step 5: Clean all the red fascia in the folds, and then wash the pig brain with small water.

Step 6: put the washed pig brain into the inner container of the stew.

Step 7: Wash and slice Gastrodia elata and Ginger respectively.

Step 8: Add clear water, Rhizoma Gastrodiae and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens into the inner container.

Step 9: Add the right amount of water to the stew.

Part 10: put the liner into the stew pot, cover it and select the stew function.

Step 11: Add Lycium barbarum in the last 15 minutes.

Step 12: Add pepper to the stewed pig brain.

Step 13: Add salt on the basis of the previous step.

Step 14: stew the brain-nourishing pig brain.

Step 15: Put it in a bowl and serve.

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