2. Gastrodia elata is often used to treat headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, convulsion, epilepsy, tetanus and other diseases. Gastrodia elata is also a common over-the-counter medicine for arthralgia and a Chinese patent medicine, which is very effective for trigeminal neuralgia, angioneurotic headache, cerebrovascular disease headache, toxic polyneuritis, waist and leg pain and so on.