1, analgesic effect: Gastrodia elata injection prepared from Gastrodia elata has obvious analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, angioneurotic headache, cerebrovascular headache, toxic polyneuritis, etc.

2. 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.

3, 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.

4, 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.

5, eyesight, intelligence: Gastrodia elata still has the effect of eyesight and significantly enhancing 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%.

Functional indications:

Gastrodia elata is moist but not dry, and it mainly enters the liver meridian, and it is better at calming the liver and calming the wind. All the symptoms of liver wind moving and dizziness, regardless of deficiency or excess, are important drugs.

1. 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.

2. dispel wind and relieve pain. Used for dizziness, headache, numbness of limbs and hemiplegia caused by wind phlegm.

Gastrodia elata is suitable for dizziness caused by internal wind. There are three types of headache caused by internal wind: first, the hyperactivity of liver yang, with symptoms: headache and dizziness at the same time; Second, phlegm is blocked in the middle, showing symptoms: I often feel my head is heavy; Third, patients with kidney deficiency, symptoms: headache and dizziness accompanied by symptoms of memory loss. Gastrodia elata is not suitable for headache and dizziness caused by cold.

Gastrodia elata has sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant effects; It can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebrovascular resistance, slightly contract cerebrovascular and increase coronary blood flow; It can lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate and protect myocardial ischemia; Gastrodia elata polysaccharide has immune activity.

The following points should be paid attention to when using Gastrodia elata: 1. All patients should use Gastrodia elata with caution when they see fluid deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, etc. 2. Pay attention to compatibility and application. "Materia Medica Yanyi" has a description that "Gastrodia elata must be assisted by other drugs, and then see its merits". Ancient and modern physicians rarely use gastrodia elata singly, but mostly use drugs according to different disease syndromes. Such as: Banxia Baizhu Tianma Decoction, Tianma Gouteng Drink, Tianma Pill, etc. Clinically, the effect of gastrodia elata alone is not good or the effect is uncertain. 3. Even in the case of hyperactivity of liver yang and phlegm blocking meridians, gastrodia elata should be carefully examined, and the pathogenesis should be grasped, so as to achieve good therapeutic effect. 4. Gastrodia elata should not be fried for a long time. The main component of gastrodia elata is gastrodin, which is extremely volatile when exposed to heat. Gastrodia elata and other drugs will lose the effective components of sedation and analgesia due to heat. Therefore, it is best to moisten gastrodia elata with a small amount of water first, cut it into thin slices after softening, dry it in the air or dry it and grind it into powder, and take it with the decoction, or grind it into pills and take it in powder. 5. When using single gastrodia elata or gastrodia elata preparation, if dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, rapid heartbeat and breathing, itchy skin, etc. occur, stop taking the medicine immediately, and those with severe symptoms should go to the hospital in time.

Gastrodia diet:

Ingredients: egg 1 egg, 2 grams of gastrodia elata powder.

Cooking method: Shell the eggs, put them into a bowl, add gastrodia elata powder, stir well and steam the cooked food.

How to eat and how much to eat: eat steamed gastrodia elata eggs1-2 times a day.

Function: calming the liver and calming the wind, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.

Scope of application: used for dizziness due to liver wind, or mental dystrophy, insomnia and amnesia. —— Henkel Machinery