How to eat Gastrodia elata:
Gastrodia elata can be eaten raw. Although Gastrodia elata is a traditional Chinese medicine, it is mild and non-toxic, and can be eaten like ordinary food. However, its taste is not very good, so few people will eat it raw, and more people will choose to grind Gastrodia elata to soak in water.
The effective components in Gastrodia elata are gastrodin and geraniol, which are very easy to volatilize at high temperature, affecting its efficacy. Therefore, processing Gastrodia elata at high temperature will make Gastrodia elata lose some effective components, and the longer it takes, the more it will be lost, so soaking in water is a good choice.
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The function and efficacy of gastrodia elata;
1, Gastrodia elata has the effects of calming the liver, calming the wind, expelling wind and relieving pain. Gastrodia elata is moist and fluid, which can nourish blood and stop wind. It can be used to treat headache and dizziness caused by blood deficiency and liver wind, as well as infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus. It can also be used for dizziness, headache, numbness of limbs and hemiplegia caused by wind phlegm.
2. Analgesic effect: Gastrodia elata injection prepared from Gastrodia elata is effective for trigeminal neuralgia, angioneurotic headache, cerebrovascular headache and toxic polyneuritis. Gastrodia elata has obvious analgesic effect. In recent years, the clinical trials in some medical units 1000 patients show that the effective rate is 90%.
3. Sedative effect: Some medical units use synthetic gastrodin to treat neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome, and the effective rates are 89.44% and 86.87% respectively. It can also inhibit the central excitation caused by caffeine and enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital sodium.
4, anticonvulsant effect: Gastrodia elata has a certain curative effect on facial nerve convulsion, limb numbness, hemiplegia, epilepsy and so on. It can also relieve smooth muscle spasm, angina pectoris and biliary colic.
5, lowering blood pressure: Gastrodia elata can treat hypertension. Long-term administration can calm the liver and replenish qi, strengthen the waist and knees, strengthen the bones and muscles, increase the blood flow of the peripheral and coronary arteries, and protect the heart.
6, eyesight, intelligence: Gastrodia elata still has eyesight and significantly enhance 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. Gastrodia elata injection was used to treat Alzheimer's disease in Japan, and the effective rate was 8 1%.
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