Gastrodia elata can not only cure headaches and stew chicken, but also has many other effects that you don’t know about. Below is the function of Gastrodia elata that I bring to you, let’s take a look.
Functions of Gastrodia elata
1. Protect the brain nervous system
Gastrodia elata also has the effect of improving eyesight and significantly enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulating effects on the human brain nervous system, and can enhance the resolution ability of the optic nerve. It is currently used as a brain health food or brain health drug for high-altitude flight personnel. Japan uses Gastrodia elata injection to treat Alzheimer's disease, with an effective rate of 81%.
2. Promote the energy metabolism of myocardial cells
Gastrodin can promote the energy metabolism of myocardial cells, especially the effect of obtaining energy under hypoxic conditions. In addition, it also has anti-inflammatory and immune effects.
3. Anti-convulsant
Gastrodia elata has certain curative effects on facial nerve convulsions, limb numbness, hemiplegia, epilepsy, etc. It also has the effect of relieving smooth muscle spasm, angina pectoris and biliary colic.
4. Lower blood pressure
Gastrodia elata can treat high blood pressure. Taking it for a long time can calm the liver and replenish qi, benefit the waist and knees, strengthen muscles and bones, and can also increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, which has a protective effect on the heart.
5. Analgesia
Gastrodia injection made from Gastrodia elata can treat trigeminal neuralgia, angioneuropathic headache, cerebrovascular headache, and toxic polyneuritis. Gastrodia elata, etc., have obvious analgesic effects. In recent years, it has been clinically tested on more than 1,000 patients in some medical units, and the effective rate has reached 90%.
6. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases
It can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebral vascular resistance, slightly shrink cerebral blood vessels, and increase coronary blood flow.
7. Sedation
Some medical units use synthetic gastrodin (gastroside) to treat patients with neurasthenia and neurasthenic syndrome, with effective rates of 89.44% and 86.87% respectively. It can inhibit the central nervous system excitability caused by caffeine and enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital. Efficacy of Gastrodia elata
1. Alleviate wind and relieve spasm
Gastrodia elata is sweet and cool in taste, enters the liver and pericardium meridians, is good at clearing the fire of the pericardium, and relieves the heat of the liver meridian. It mainly treats the liver Movement within the wind, epilepsy and convulsions, wind caused by extreme heat, twitching of limbs, febrile convulsions in children, convulsions in children, coma due to strong fever, trismus, twitching of limbs, etc. For corresponding diseases, other traditional Chinese medicines need to be combined.
2. Clear the liver and calm the yang
Gastrodia elata has a neutral nature and mainly enters the liver meridian. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as head bloating, headache, dizziness and other symptoms caused by liver fire or liver yang. For corresponding diseases, it needs to be used in conjunction with other traditional Chinese medicines.
3. Qufeng and dredge meridians
Gastrodia elata is sweet and flat in nature. This product has the functions of dispelling wind evil, dredging meridians and relieving pain. When combined with other medicines, it is used to treat hand and foot paralysis, muscle and bone pain, rheumatic arthralgia, numbness of limbs and other symptoms caused by stroke. Gastrodia dietary prescription
Gastrodia eggs
Ingredients: 1 egg, 2 grams of Gastrodia powder.
Cooking method: Peel the eggs and put them into a bowl, add Gastrodia powder, mix well and steam until cooked.
How to eat and how much you eat: Eat steamed Gastrodia eggs 1 to 2 times a day.
Function: Calming the liver and calming wind, nourishing the heart and calming the mind.
Scope of application: used for liver wind dizziness, mental disorders, insomnia and forgetfulness.
Gastrodia walnut fish
1. Remove the scales, gills and internal organs of the carp, wash them, and put them into a box; cut Ligusticum chuanxiong and Poria cocos into slices and wash them with rice for the second time. Soak the Gastrodia elata in rice water soaked with Ligusticum chuanxiong, Poria cocos, etc. for about 4 hours. Remove and drain the water and slice (shred) for later use.
2. Put the gastrodia slices (shredded) and walnut kernels into the fish head and belly, put the fish in a basin, then add onions and ginger, add an appropriate amount of water, and steam for about 30 minutes. .
3. After the fish is steamed, remove the green onion and ginger, add water soybean powder, clear soup, sugar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, and sesame oil to boil to thicken it, and pour it on the fish.
Efficacy: calming the liver and calming wind, calming convulsions and relieving pain, promoting qi and blood circulation, nourishing the brain and improving intelligence.