Gastrodia elata is a common Chinese herbal medicine in life, which not only has high medicinal value, but also has a good dietotherapy effect. There are many ways to eat Gastrodia elata, but there are also taboos. Here are some ways to eat Gastrodia elata.
How to eat Gastrodia elata and its taboos 1 How to eat Gastrodia elata
1, stewed pig brain with gastrodia elata.
Gastrodia elata 10g, pig brain 1 utensil. First, wash the pig brain, steam gastrodia elata and slice it, put it in a stew pot together, and stew it in water. This dish has the functions of expelling wind, inducing resuscitation, dredging blood vessels, nourishing and calming the nerves. It is suitable for treating hypertension, arteriosclerosis, neurasthenia, sequelae of cerebrovascular accident, etc. Twice a week, the secret service is also effective.
2. Gastrodia elata eggs
Gastrodia elata (ground powder) 2g, egg 1 piece. Open the eggs, pour them into a bowl, stir with chopsticks, add gastrodia elata powder, mix well, and steam cooked food, once a day1~ 2 times. This egg white is the leader, nourishing liver and kidney. Can be used for dizziness and neurasthenia.
3. Gastrodia elata wine
Gastrodia elata 15g, Radix Rehmanniae 15g, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi 30g, Fructus Lycii 30g, Semen Sesami Niger 15g, crystal sugar 50g and Chinese liquor 1000g. Pulverize the first five ingredients, put them in a cloth bag and put them in a container. Adding Chinese liquor, sealing, boiling with slow fire, taking it down to be cooled, soaking for 14 days, removing the medicine bag and adding crystal sugar. Add 250g of boiled water, and serve. This wine nourishes the liver and kidney, tonifies the essence and blood, tonifies qi, and blackens the hair. It is suitable for soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, jing of kidney xu, premature gray hair, dry intestine and constipation. Take orally before meals. Each time10 ~ 20 ml, taken three times a day.
4, Tianma pork ribs hot pot
Raw materials: 200g of peeled fresh gastrodia elata, 750g of pork ribs, 500g of pork, 50g of coix seed, tsaoko, lotus seed and pork plate oil, 250g of cauliflower, 20g of Chinese cabbage, oyster mushroom and peanut oil, 20g of crystal sugar, 35g of Jiang Mo, 30g of cooking wine and 3000ml of pork soup.
Soak Gastrodia elata in warm water for 30 minutes, wash and cut into thin slices; Removing seeds and leaving pericarp of tsaoko; Cleaning Coicis Semen to remove impurities; Lotus seeds are soaked in warm water to get rid of the heart; Wash pork ribs and drain, chop them into 6-8 cm long pieces with a machete, blanch them in a boiling water pot, take them out and drain; Pork is cut into thin slices with a thickness of 0, 3 cm, a length of 6-8 cm and a width of 4-6 cm with a knife; Peel and pulp wax gourd, and cut into thin slices; Cut cauliflower into small flowers; Tearing Pleurotus ostreatus into strips; Wash Chinese cabbage. The above raw materials, except medicine and pork ribs, are all put on plates for later use.
Taboo of Gastrodia elata
1, Gastrodia elata is not a tonic
Gastrodia elata is usually used to treat dizziness, convulsion, epilepsy, convulsion, tetanus and numbness of limbs, which can effectively promote physical health, and it also has the effect of health care if taken regularly every day. Gastrodia elata has a remarkable effect on dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, so many people think that Gastrodia elata is a tonic with good effect.
In fact, this understanding is very wrong. Gastrodia elata is not suitable for people of any physique. If you don't know clearly your physical condition and qi and blood condition when taking Gastrodia elata, it will easily lead to adverse reactions.
2. Side effects of taking Gastrodia elata.
The survey shows that some people have adverse reactions after soaking Gastrodia elata in water, mainly dizziness, nausea, chest tightness and shortness of breath, and even papules on the skin, and itching is unbearable, and even more serious, there may be edema and hair loss. This situation is not only produced after taking Gastrodia elata, but also occurs when some people take the decoction containing Gastrodia elata, such as Tianma Pill, Banxia Baizhu Tianma Decoction and so on.
These conditions are generally called allergic symptoms of Gastrodia elata. It is suggested that we should stop taking Gastrodia elata immediately after discomfort, so that the bad symptoms will disappear quickly. If not, we need to see a doctor in time, so as to better protect our lives and health.
3, can't take it for a long time
It has been recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica, China's classic Chinese medicine, that taking Gastrodia elata for a long time is not good for your health, and it is likely to lead to red lead, that is, a rash, which is not good for your health.
3. Other symptoms
The old Chinese doctor also told us that not all constitutions are time to take gastrodia elata. Gastrodia elata is not dry, but it is also a wind agent. If it is taken in a windless constitution, it will only be harmful to the body. It is suggested that some patients with excessive internal heat, headache, dry mouth and constipation should not soak Gastrodia elata in water easily.
It is best not to take Gastrodia elata alone when using Gastrodia elata every day. If you take it as a medicine, it is best to do it under the guidance of a professional doctor. If you make a recipe, you must make it according to the relevant recipe. If you need to take Gastrodia elata alone, you can only take a small amount at first, and then observe the changes of your body. You can increase the amount of Gastrodia elata only if no adverse reactions are found, but it must not exceed 40g.
How to eat Gastrodia elata and its taboos 2 What is the efficacy and function of Gastrodia elata?
1, calming wind and relieving spasm
Gastrodia elata enters the liver meridian and is good at treating wind syndrome, which can extinguish wind and stop spasm, so it is called wind-calming medicine. It can be used for treating hyperactivity of liver wind, convulsion, epilepsy and convulsion, regardless of deficiency or excess of cold and heat, such as high fever, coma, convulsion and convulsion, infantile chronic convulsion, epilepsy, unconsciousness, sudden fainting and unconsciousness.
2. Stabilize liver yang
Gastrodia elata can not only stop wind and spasm, but also calm liver yang. It can effectively treat headache, dizziness, head swelling, migraine, blurred eyes, inability to sit up, etc., and it is a good medicine for dizziness.
3, expelling wind and dredging collaterals
Gastrodia elata has the effects of dispelling external wind, relaxing muscles and collaterals, and removing rheumatism. It is mainly used to treat facial paralysis, hand and foot paralysis, and muscle pain caused by stroke. It can also be used to treat rheumatic arthralgia, numbness of limbs, and unfavorable flexion and extension of joints.
4. Lowering blood pressure
Gastrodia elata also has the effect of promoting qi circulation and blood circulation, and is good at dredging blood vessels and enhancing the elasticity of blood vessel walls, so as to regulate blood pressure, especially for patients with hypertension.
5. Protect the brain
Gastrodia elata has the effects of improving eyesight and significantly enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulatory effects on human brain nervous system and can enhance the resolution of optic nerve. At present, it has been used as brain health food or brain health medicine for high-altitude pilots.
6. Protect your heart
Gastrodin can promote energy metabolism of myocardial cells, especially in the case of hypoxia. In addition, Gastrodia elata can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebrovascular resistance, slightly contract cerebrovascular, increase coronary blood flow, and prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
matters need attention
1, Gastrodia elata should be used with caution for all patients with fluid deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, etc.
2. Pay attention to compatibility application. "Materia Medica Yanyi" has a description that "Gastrodia elata must be assisted by other drugs, and then see its merits". Ancient and modern physicians rarely use gastrodia elata singly, but mostly use drugs according to different disease syndromes. Such as: Banxia Baizhu Tianma Decoction, Tianma Gouteng Drink, Tianma Pill, etc. Clinically, the effect of gastrodia elata alone is not good or the effect is uncertain.
3. Even in the case of hyperactivity of liver yang and phlegm blocking meridians, gastrodia elata should be carefully examined, and the pathogenesis should be grasped, so as to achieve good therapeutic effect.
4. Gastrodia elata should not be fried for a long time. The main component of gastrodia elata is gastrodin, which is extremely volatile when exposed to heat. Gastrodia elata and other drugs will lose the effective components of sedation and analgesia due to heat. Therefore, it is best to moisten gastrodia elata with a small amount of water first, cut it into thin slices after softening, dry it in the air or dry it and grind it into powder, and take it with the decoction, or grind it into pills and take it in powder.
5. When using single gastrodia elata or gastrodia elata preparation, if dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, rapid heartbeat and breathing, itchy skin, etc. occur, stop taking the medicine immediately, and those with severe symptoms should go to the hospital in time.
How to eat Gastrodia elata and its taboos 3. Nutritional value of Gastrodia elata.
Gastrodin is the main effective component of Gastrodia elata, and its content is about 0 and 0.25%. Gastrodia elata contains vanillin, vanillin, vitamin A substances, glycosides, crystalline neutral substances, trace alkaloids, mucus and so on. Gastrodin (gastrodin), gastrodin and its analogues have been synthesized artificially. In addition, gastrodia elata polysaccharide is also one of the effective components of gastrodia elata.
How to eat gastrodia elata
You need to master the correct method to eat Gastrodia elata. Because the main effective components of Gastrodia elata are very volatile when heated, no matter whether they are decocted separately or decocted, they will lose their sedative and analgesic effects due to heating.
If it is used to stew chicken and duck to nourish the body, it is not correct. The correct way to take gastrodia elata is to wash it first, then moisten it thoroughly with a small amount of water. After softening, cut it into tablets, dry it, grind it into powder and swallow it, or grind it into pills and powder for taking.
Who can't eat gastrodia elata
1, less body fluid failure, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, etc. This kind of people must not eat gastrodia elata, so as to prevent aggravation of the disease.
2, in the process of eating gastrodia elata, we should pay attention to the physical condition, such as dizziness, shortness of breath, chest tightness, vomiting and nausea, rapid heartbeat and breathing, itchy skin, etc., should immediately stop taking drugs, and those with severe symptoms should go to the hospital in time.
3, be sure to understand the patient's medical history, whether you can eat Gastrodia elata, and whether there will be any side effects.
4, infants, pregnant women, maternity, these special constitutions, generally do not eat. There are also heat arthralgia, such as joint swelling and pain such as burning, fever at the pain point, and pain without a fixed place, as well as dry mouth and dry lips that are not suitable for eating gastrodia elata. There are also authors with poor hypertension control, poor heart and liver function, diabetes, kidney disease and other serious chronic diseases. If you want to eat Gastrodia elata, you must be under the guidance of a doctor.
5. Gastrodia elata is a commonly used and valuable Chinese medicine, and attention should also be paid to the dosage. It is mostly used to treat headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus. Improper consumption, it also has certain toxic and side effects.