The protagonist of this soup is Gastrodia elata, also known as Dingfengcao, which is used as medicine by its roots. Before the winter solstice, it was called "Dongma" 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 the symptoms of dizziness and headache caused by liver wind moving 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 the symptoms and root causes of head wind disease, and the efficacy is synergistic. In addition, pig brain is used as the food for inducing menstruation, and Lycium barbarum can nourish liver and kidney and improve the taste of the soup. This soup can be used as an auxiliary treatment for patients with head wind disease in winter.
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The head wind disease mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine is a kind of disease with chronic paroxysmal headache as the main symptom, which corresponds to vascular headache and partial muscle tension headache in western medicine. Patients with head wind disease like warm head, often afraid of wind and cold, headache is good and bad, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and when it comes to cold, it is unbearable. Investigate its etiology and pathogenesis, often due to human liver and kidney deficiency, liver yang hyperactivity, disturbance of clearing orifices, coupled with exogenous cold, wind in the head meridians, cold coagulation of meridians and collaterals and frequent headaches. Traditional Chinese medicine has achieved results by calming the liver and suppressing yang, expelling wind and dispelling cold.
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