Gastrodia elata is sweet and flat, moist but not drying. It mainly enters the liver meridian and is good at calming the liver and calming wind. It is an important medicine for all symptoms of liver wind internal movement and dizziness, regardless of deficiency or excess.

1. Efficacy of Gastrodia stewed chicken:

1. Smoothing the liver and extinguishing the wind

This product is moist and liquid, can nourish the blood and extinguish the wind, and can treat hemorrhage. It can also be used for headaches and dizziness caused by internal movement of liver wind due to deficiency. It can also be used for convulsions, epilepsy and tetanus in children.

2. Expelling wind and relieving pain

It is used for dizziness, partial headache, numbness of limbs and hemiplegia caused by wind and phlegm.

2. How to make Gastrodia old chicken soup

Ingredients: 600 grams of clean old chicken, 25 grams of ginger slices, 500 grams of chicken soup, a little each of Gastrodia elata, wolfberry, and red dates, refined salt, white sugar, Appropriate amount of cooking wine.

1. Slaughter and clean the native chicken; rinse the red dates and wolfberries with clean water.

2. Add a little sugar to the Gastrodia elata in advance and soak until soft.

3. After adding water to the pot and boiling, add cooking wine (5g), then put the cleaned chicken into the pot and cook.

4. Wait until the blood foam and dirt are boiled, then turn off the heat, take out and rinse.

5. Cut the soaked Gastrodia elata into thin slices, about 6 slices; 2 slices of ginger.

6. Put all the ingredients into a casserole, add cooking wine, cover with water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for about 1-1.5 hours. After simmering, add appropriate amount of salt.