Gastrodia elata may be a stranger to you, but people who have headaches all the year round know "Gastrodia elata Stewed Fish Head".

gastrodia elata is really a good medicine for headache. Gastrodia elata is sweet, flat and moist, and belongs to the liver meridian, which can stop wind and spasm and calm the liver and suppress yang. Therefore, it can treat headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang and disturbance of wind and phlegm. Whether it is true or false, it can be used.

Clinically, it has a unique therapeutic effect on headache and dizziness caused by hypertension, arteriosclerosis, otogenic vertigo and phlegm stagnation.

Gastrodia elata is also a tonic. Li Shizhen even thinks: "Gastrodia elata is the first to tonify medicine." Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica also says: "Long-term service can benefit qi, grow yin, make you fat and healthy, and make you fit, which will increase your years."

Modern research has also confirmed that Gastrodia elata has sedative, analgesic, anticonvulsant and blood pressure lowering effects, and can improve human immunity.

It is not uncommon for people who are under great pressure in life and work and have neurasthenia.

Insomnia is a very common manifestation. It is often disturbing. My mind is always restless, and I think about it. I feel sleepy but I just can't sleep, and I feel depressed during the day. There are also dry eyes, inability to see clearly, upset and impatient.

To relieve these uncomfortable symptoms, besides having a good rest and exercising more, diet can also play a role.

dietotherapy recommendation: gastrodia elata beef and potatoes

take 2g gastrodia elata, 5g beef, 5g potatoes, and appropriate amount of onion and ginger. Drying Rhizoma Gastrodiae and pulverizing into fine powder; Wash beef and potatoes separately and cut into pieces; Slice ginger and cut onion.

Heat the wok. When the wok is heated to 6%, add ginger and scallion until fragrant, add beef, potatoes, salt and gastrodia elata powder, add 4 ml of clear water, simmer for 45 minutes, and cook potatoes in a bowl of gastrodia elata beef.

how to eat: once a day, eat 3-5g beef each time.

efficacy: nourishing liver and kidney, calming mind, benefiting qi and blood, suitable for neurasthenia.

① Gastrodia elata should not be used by people with blood deficiency and yin deficiency, children and pregnant women

② Pay attention to the dosage. Generally, it is 1-15g for oral administration, and it is not advisable to take more.

③ Gastrodia elata is rarely used singly, so it needs to be used in combination.

④ Gastrodia elata should not be decocted for a long time.