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Gastrodia elata is the dried tuber of Gastrodia elata in Orchidaceae, and it is a commonly used and expensive Chinese medicine. It is oval or oblong, slightly flat, shriveled and slightly curved. It is 3 ~15cm long, 0/.5 ~ 6cm wide and 0.5 ~ 2cm thick. The surface is yellowish white to yellowish brown, slightly transparent, irregular, vertical, with horizontal ring patterns with multiple rounds of latent buds arranged, sometimes brown stalks can be seen, and sometimes a little trace or membranous scales can be seen on the brown stalks. There is a residual stem base (spring hemp) at the top, or a reddish-brown to dark-brown Ying Ge mouth-shaped terminal bud (winter hemp). After the mother hemp falls off, the end is round and umbilical. Solid, not easy to break, flat section, horny, yellow-white or light brown. Slight gas, flat nature, sweet taste, slightly pungent. Solid texture, weight, Ying Ge mouth and no void are preferred.
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Gastrodia elata and its function
Sweet and flat; Entering the liver meridian; Calm the liver, calm the wind and stop spasm. Used for headache, dizziness, infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus.
1, calming the liver and calming the wind
Gastrodia elata can nourish blood and stop wind. Can be used for treating headache and dizziness caused by blood deficiency and liver wind, and infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus.
2, expelling wind and relieving pain
Used for dizziness, headache 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: first, hyperactivity of liver yang, with symptoms: headache and dizziness at the same time; Second, phlegm is blocked in the middle, showing symptoms: I often feel my head is heavy; Third, the symptoms of people with kidney deficiency: headache, dizziness and memory loss. Gastrodia elata is not suitable for headache and dizziness caused by cold.
3. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases
It can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebrovascular resistance, slightly contract cerebrovascular and increase coronary blood flow.
Step 4 lower blood pressure
It can lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate and protect myocardial ischemia. Gastrodia elata polysaccharide has immune activity.
Medicinal value of gastrodia elata
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Source "Lei Bao Gong Zhi Lun"
It is the rhizome of Gastrodia elata in Orchidaceae. Mining in winter and spring, the winter picker named "Madong", good quality; The person who picks spring is called "Ma Chun", and its quality is not as good as that of Xu. After digging out, remove the stems and fibrous roots on the ground, wash the soil, soak it in clear water, wipe off the rough epidermis in time, soak it in clear water or alum water, then boil or steam until there is no white spot in the center, take it out and dry it, or dry it in the sun.
Sweet in nature; Xin; Ping; nontoxic
Meridian tropism and liver meridian tropism.
Usage and dosage: decocted, 3-10g; Or by pill, powder or grinding, each time1-1.5g.
Use with caution for people with insufficient qi and blood.
Medicinal auxiliary formula of gastrodia elata
65438+ Add seven flavors, pound Luo into powder, add frankincense, mix well, drop water into pills, as big as buttonwood. Five capsules at a time, gradually increased to ten capsules, green tea, three days. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Tianma Pill)
2, dispelling wind and resolving phlegm, clearing the head, widening the chest and benefiting the diaphragm, treating upset, dizziness, urgency, shoulder and back fatigue, lethargy, limb pain, headache, nasal congestion, facial deficiency: Gastrodia elata, two or two. Finally, honey pills are as big as medlar. Chew one tablet after each meal, drink tea and wine. ("Xijifang" Tianma Pill)
3. Treatment of stroke hemiplegia, muscle pain, difficulty in walking, and heavy waist and knees: Gastrodia elata, Sanguisorba officinalis, Myrrha, Scrophularia, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata (processed, peeled, umbilical cord), and musk. The first six flavors, except musk and myrrh, are ground into powder, mixed with the ground drugs, refined into honey, and the pills are as big as buttonwood. Take 20 capsules each time, under warm wine, before eating on an empty stomach. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Tianma Pill)
4, women's wind paralysis, hand and foot paralysis: Gastrodia elata (cut), Achyranthes bidentata, Aconitum carmichaeli, Eucommia ulmoides each. Apply a fine file, put it in a raw silk bag, soak it in a barrel of good wine for five liters for seven days, and drink a small glass at a time. ("Ten Convenient Prescriptions" Tianma Liquor)
5, treatment of rheumatic beriberi, muscle soreness, heartless skin: Gastrodia elata (raw) 52, Ephedra (root removal, festival) 12, Kusnezoff monkshood (processed, peeled), Pogostemon leaves, Pinellia ternata (processed yellow), white flour (fried) 52 each. On the six flavors, Daoluo is fine powder, dripping pills are as big as the head of a chicken, and cinnabar is the coat. Take one pill each time, chew tea and wine, three times a day, regardless of time. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Tianma Pill)
6. Treating children with wind phlegm, sudden convulsion and wind epilepsy: Gastrodia elata Quliang (washed with wine, fried), Danxing Sanliang, Silkworm Jiro (both fried), Tianzhu Huangyiliang, Ming Xiong Huang five money. All are finely ground, and the sum is even. Pinellia ternata is 22 Liang, but it is the end, and the cream pill is as big as a marble. Soak mint and ginger in thick soup and make one pill, or two or three pills. ("Materia Medica")
7, cure children's fright: gastrodia elata half two, scorpion (detoxified, fried) one or two, (cannon, peeled) half two, white silkworm (fried, shredded) two money. * * * is fine powder, and the batter cooked with wine is meatballs as big as hemp seeds. Take ten to fifteen tablets a year. After decoction of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, this medicine is mild and can be taken frequently. ("Wei's Family Biography" Tianma Pill)
How to eat gastrodia elata
1, steamed meat with fresh gastrodia elata.
Ingredients: fresh gastrodia elata100g, lean pork100g.
Practice: Wash and slice fresh gastrodia elata, cut lean meat into 5-6 cm square pieces, put them in a big bowl, and steam them in a cage for 1 hour before eating.
Efficacy: It can relieve Meniere's syndrome.
2, Tianma pig brain porridge
Materials: gastrodia elata 10g, pig brain 1g, and japonica rice 250g.
Practice: Wash the pig brain, mix it with Gastrodia elata, put it in a casserole, add japonica rice, add water to cook porridge, and cook the porridge and brain well. Take warm porridge 1 time every morning.
Efficacy: calming the liver and calming the wind, promoting qi and promoting blood circulation. It is suitable for headache caused by hypertension, arteriosclerosis, Minolta and head wind.
3. Steamed eggs with gastrodia elata
Ingredients: egg 1 egg, 6 grams of gastrodia elata powder.
Practice: open a small mouth at one end of the egg, add gastrodia elata powder, stick the small hole of the egg with wet white paper and steam it up. Use it once in the morning and once in the evening, about 10 days as a course of treatment.
Efficacy: Eating Gastrodia elata in this way has a certain effect on the treatment of uterine prolapse.
4. Gastrodia elata Sliced Meat Soup
Ingredients: pork and gastrodia elata.
Practice: soak gastrodia elata and make soup with sliced meat. It takes about 3 ~ 6 grams of gastrodia elata. This kind of gastrodia elata can be eaten often.
Efficacy: Tianma Meat Sliced Decoction nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, and the five internal organs are deficient.
Side effects of gastrodia elata
Gastrodia elata is often taken as a tonic because of headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang. At the sight of dizziness, regardless of physical weakness, qi and blood ups and downs, and indiscriminate use of Gastrodia elata, the result may be the same adverse reaction as the above patients.
The common adverse reactions of taking Gastrodia elata include dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, skin papules with itching and so on. Some people may have facial or systemic edema or even hair loss. Not only does gastrodia elata have this kind of reaction, but some people also have symptoms of allergic to gastrodia elata after taking decoction containing gastrodia elata, such as Banxia Baizhu Tianma Decoction, Tianma pills, Tianma sugar-coated tablets and other Chinese patent medicines.
Gastrodia elata medical records
1, Classic: Dominating evil spirits, benefiting qi for a long time, Long Yin and fatty health.
2, "not recorded": eliminate carbuncle swelling, lower branch fullness, hernia, bleeding.
3, "The Theory of Medicinal Properties": Treating cold stubbornness, paralysis, talkativeness, more shock and loss of ambition.
4, "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Fuyang, tonic, blood circulation, enlightenment.
5, "Kaibao Materia Medica": the main rheumatism, limb contracture, infantile epilepsy, shock, weakness of the waist and knees, strong tendons and strong bones.
6. Materia Medica: Headwind, headache, dizziness, convulsion, limb spasm, language disorder, all strokes and wind phlegm.
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