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What does Gastrodia elata look like

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Gastrodia elata is one of the common traditional Chinese medicine, many growers have begun to plant Gastrodia elata, so what does Gastrodia elata look like? Let's take a look. What does Gastrodia elata look like? Saprophytic herbs. Plants 30-100 cm tall, sometimes up to 2 m; rhizomatous

Gastrodia elata is one of the common traditional Chinese medicine, many growers have begun to plant Gastrodia elata, so what does Gastrodia elata look like? Let's take a look.

What does Gastrodia elata look like?

Saprophytic herbs. Plants 30-100 cm tall, sometimes up to 2 m; rhizome fleshy, tuberous, elliptic to subdumbbell-shaped, fleshy, 8-12 cm long, 3-5 cm in diameter, sometimes larger, with denser nodes, nodes covered by many triangular broadly ovate sheaths. The stem is erect, orange, yellow, grayish brown or turquoise, without green leaves, and the lower part is covered with several membranous sheaths.

Racemes 5-30 cm long, usually with 30-50 flowers; flower bracts oblong-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm long, membranous; pedicels and ovaries 7-12 mm long, slightly shorter than flower bracts; flowers twisted, orange, yellowish, blue-green or yellowish white, suberect The perianth tube formed by the combination of sepals and petals is about 1 cm long, 5-7 mm in diameter, nearly obliquely ovate-cylindric, with 5 lobes at the tip, but in front, where the two lateral sepals meet, the crack is as deep as 5 mm, and the base of the tube protrudes forward; outer lobe (free part of sepals) ovate-triangular, apex obtuse; inner lobe (free part of petals) suboblong, smaller. Labellum oblong-ovoid, 6-7 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, 3-lobed, base Adnate to end of column foot and inner wall of perianth tube, with a pair of fleshy corpus callosum, distally free, papillate above, margin irregularly short fringed; core column 5-7 mm long, with short column feet.

Second, the function of Gastrodia elata

It is mainly used for headache and vertigo, limb numbness, infantile convulsion, tetanus and so on. Gastrodia elata used to rely on wild resources. After the successful transformation of wild species in the 1970s, Gastrodia elata has become the main source of commodities. Dispelling rheumatism, relieving pain, promoting qi and promoting blood circulation.

Gastrodia elata is a precious traditional Chinese medicine, the market demand is relatively large, the sales situation is also better.

 
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