The first way to take gastrodia elata in life is to grind gastrodia elata into fine powder and take it with warm water, each time1g-1.5g. The second is stew, in which gastrodia elata is sliced, alone or mixed with other nourishing foods, and stewed in a covered container. Gastrodia elata duck is a delicious medicinal diet. Friends with symptoms such as yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, dizziness, tinnitus, headache, bitter taste and dry throat may wish to try it. Slaughter 1 duck (about 500g), remove hair and viscera, stew with Gastrodia elata slice (10g) and Radix Rehmanniae (30g) until the duck is cooked, and season with salt and monosodium glutamate. In addition, friends with high blood pressure can also cook porridge with gastrodia elata and pig brain. Gastrodia elata 10g, pig brain 1, japonica rice 250g. Wash 1 pig brain, put it in a casserole with 10g gastrodia elata * *, add 10g japonica rice, and add water to cook porridge, porridge and brain cooked. You can take warm porridge 1 time every morning.

Gastrodia elata can treat dizziness and headache, but not all dizziness and headache can work. Because there are many reasons for dizziness and headache. Such as anemia, cerebral malnutrition or congestion in the body. The only way to treat dizziness and headache caused by these factors is to correct anemia and eliminate phlegm and congestion. Gastrodia elata doesn't have the function of enriching blood, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis, so it can't be treated with Gastrodia elata alone. It must be combined with drugs for enriching blood, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis to treat both the symptoms and root causes, and dizziness and headache can be cured by drugs. As early as 1989, the Compendium of Materia Medica proposed that Gastrodia elata is a medicine for headache.