What are the effects and functions of Tianma?

Gastrodia elata is a commonly used and valuable traditional Chinese medicine. Its efficacy and effect make it widely used in clinic, such as Gastrodia elata can be used to treat epilepsy, convulsion, headache and vertigo, infantile convulsion, limb numbness, tetanus and other diseases. It has a great effect on the recuperation of physical diseases. Here we introduce some efficacy and effects of Gastrodia elata, mainly in analgesia, sedation, anti-convulsion and lowering blood pressure. As well as the efficacy and function of the methods of vision and memory enhancement.

The function of Gastrodia elata

1. Analgesic effect: Tianma injection made from Gastrodia elata has obvious analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, vascular nerve headache, cerebrovascular headache, toxic polyneuritis and so on. In recent years, through the clinical trial of more than 1000 patients in some medical units, the effective rate is up to 90%.

2. Sedative effect: some medical units use synthetic gastrodin (gastrodin) to treat patients with neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome, with an effective rate of 89.44% and 86.87%, respectively. It can also inhibit the central excitatory effect caused by caffeine and enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital.

3. Anticonvulsant effect: certain curative effect of Gastrodia elata on facial nerve convulsion, limb numbness, hemiplegia, epilepsy and so on. It also has the effect of relieving smooth muscle spasm, relieving angina pectoris and biliary angina.

4. The effect of lowering blood pressure: Gastrodia elata can treat hypertension. Long-term service can calm the liver and replenish qi, benefit waist and knees, strengthen muscles and bones, increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, and protect the heart.

5. The effect of enlightening eyesight and increasing intelligence: Gastrodia elata still has the function of enlightening eyesight and significantly enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulatory effect on human brain nervous system, and can enhance the distinguishing ability of optic nerve. Gastrodia elata has been used as brain health food or brain health drug for high-altitude pilots. In Japan, Gastrodia elata injection is used to treat Alzheimer's disease, with an effective rate of 81%.

What is the price of Gastrodia elata

The price of Gastrodia elata varies greatly because of whether it is wild, whether it is real Gastrodia elata, spring hemp, winter hemp and so on.

Now wild Gastrodia elata has been very few, now pure wild Gastrodia elata has been very few (without human interference) there are wild Gastrodia elata in some remote mountain areas.

Gastrodia elata is very wild, that is, semi-wild (planted in the wild, it may be dug once every two or three years, rather than indoors or soilless). The price is not cheap, there are more than two thousand per jin, the cheap one is also close to a thousand per kilogram (this size is relatively small).

Edible taboos of Gastrodia elata

1. All patients see less body fluid, blood deficiency, yin deficiency and so on, they all use Gastrodia elata with caution.

two。 Even for the liver-yang hyperactivity, phlegm blocking meridians and other empirical evidence, the use of Gastrodia elata should carefully examine the disease, grasp the pathogenesis, with the syndrome plus or minus, in order to achieve a good therapeutic effect.

3. Gastrodia elata should not be fried for a long time. The main component of Gastrodia elata is Gastrodia elata glycoside, which is easy to volatilize in case of heat. Gastrodia elata and other drugs will lose the sedative and analgesic ingredients due to heat. Therefore, it is best to moisturize Gastrodia elata with a small amount of water, cut it into thin slices after softening, dry or dry the powder, take it with fried soup, or put it into a pill and take it loose.

4. Stop taking medicine and those with severe symptoms should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

5. Gastrodia elata should not be used with the grass root of the wind, otherwise there is a danger of bowel formation.

How to tell whether Gastrodia elata is good or bad?

Gastrodia elata tuber is oval or elongated, slightly flat, wrinkled and slightly curved. It is 3 to 15 centimeters long, 1.5 centimeters wide and 0.5 centimeters thick. The surface is yellowish white to yellowish brown, slightly transparent, with irregular longitudinal wrinkles, longitudinal wrinkles and horizontal rings arranged by latent buds, sometimes brownish brown fungal cords, and sometimes brown black fungal cords with dots or membranous scaly leaves. There is a residual stem base (spring hemp) at the top, or a reddish brown to dark brown parrot mouth-shaped terminal bud (winter hemp), with a round navel-shaped scar at the end from the maternal hemp. The quality is solid, not easy to break, the section is flat, horny, yellowish white or light brown.

Health food of Gastrodia elata

Gastrodia elata 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, soak them in the second rice washing water, and then soak Gastrodia elata in the rice washing water that has been soaked in Chuanxiong and Poria cocos for about 4 hours. remove and drain water slices (silk) for use.

two。 Put the sliced Gastrodia elata (silk) and walnut into the fish head and belly, put the fish in a basin, then add spring onions and ginger, add proper amount of water, steam for about 30 minutes.

3. After steaming the fish, pick up the spring onions and ginger, add water bean powder, clear soup, sugar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and sesame oil to boil and thicken, pour over the fish and serve.

Place the fish in a basin, then add spring onions and ginger, add proper amount of water, and steam for about 30 minutes.

3. After steaming the fish, pick up the spring onions and ginger, add water bean powder, clear soup, sugar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and sesame oil to boil and thicken, pour over the fish and serve.