Gastrodia elata can be eaten raw. Although gastrodia elata is a traditional Chinese medicine, it can be eaten like ordinary food because of its mild and non-toxic properties. Stop the wind and calm the surprise. It can be used to treat dizziness, dark eyes, headache, numbness of limbs, hemiplegia, slurred speech, and epilepsy in children.
Extended information:
Gastrodia elata is rich in gastrodin, gastrodia polysaccharide, vitamin A, glycosides, alkaloids, vanillyl alcohol, vanillin, succinic acid, β- Sitosterol, mucilage, etc., of which gastrodin and gastrodia polysaccharide are the main components.
1. Gastrodia elata can be used to cook porridge.
Usually Gastrodia elata can be used to cook porridge. When cooking porridge, you need to prepare 10 grams of Gastrodia elata, 100 grams of japonica rice, and 30 grams of bamboo juice. Use an appropriate amount of white sugar. Soak the gastrodia elata in water until soft and cut it into slices. Boil it with the japonica rice in a pot and add water to make a porridge. Then add bamboo drain and white sugar and mix well before eating. This gastrodia elata bamboo leash porridge can calm the liver and calm wind. Clear away heat and resolve phlegm.
2. Gastrodia elata soaked in wine
Gastrodia elata can also be soaked in wine and eaten. Usually, you can take 50 grams each of elata, eucommia and papaya, cut them into slices and put them in five pieces. One hundred grams of white wine can be sealed and brewed. After fifteen days, the medicinal wine can be brewed. You can take out an appropriate amount and drink it every day. It can dispel wind and relieve pain and strengthen muscles and bones. It has obvious preventive and therapeutic effects on people's waist and leg pain.
3. Make tea from Gastrodia elata
Gastrodia elata can also be brewed into tea. You can usually take ten grams of Gastrodia elata and fifteen grams of Chuanxiong, add an appropriate amount of tea leaves and brew it with boiling water. After brewing, you can drink it as tea. The Chinese medicinal materials put in once can be brewed many times. This kind of Gastrodia elata tea has obvious relief effect on human migraines and neurological headaches.
Reference: Gastrodia elata-Baidu Encyclopedia