What is Gastrodia What is Gastrodia

To put it simply, it is a commonly used and valuable Chinese medicine, and it is also a valuable tonic. Indications:

Gastrodia moist but not dry, the main into the liver meridian, long in the calm of the liver and calm the wind, where the liver wind internal movement, dizziness of the head, regardless of the void or reality, are to medicine.

1. Calm the liver and calm the wind. Gastrodia moistens many fluids, can nourish blood and relieve wind, can be used for headache and dizziness of blood deficiency and liver wind, and can also be used for children's convulsions, epilepsy and tetanus.

2. Dispel wind and relieve pain. It is used for dizziness, migraine, limb numbness, and hemiplegia caused by wind and phlegm. Gastrodia is suitable for dizziness caused by internal wind.

There are three types of headaches caused by internal strokes: 1. Hyperactive liver yang, which manifests symptoms: headache and dizziness appear at the same time; 2. Phlegm turbidity and obstruction, showing symptoms:

often feel that the head is heavy; 3. Patients with kidney deficiency, showing symptoms: headache and dizziness accompanied by symptoms of memory loss. Gastrodia is not suitable for headaches and dizziness caused by colds.

Gastrodia has sedative, analgesic, and anticonvulsant effects; It can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebral vascular resistance, slightly constrict cerebral blood vessels, and increase coronary vascular flow; It can lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate, and have a protective effect on myocardial ischemia; Gastrodia polysaccharides are immunoactive. **There are a lot of gastrodia sold online, there are wild and artificial, it is recommended to take a look at the gastrodia of this store (Lingyi Angel).

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Gastrodia is a traditional Chinese medicine, alias: tomorrow hemp, red arrow.

Gastrodia, a perennial parasitic herb, 60-100cm tall, the whole plant does not contain chlorophyll. The tubers are thick, fleshy, oblong, about 10 cm long, diameter, with inconspicuous links. The stems are cylindrical, yellowish-red.

Gastrodia is 60 100 cm high and does not contain chlorophyll throughout. The tubers are thick, fleshy oblong, about 10 cm long and 3 cm in diameter, with inconspicuous links. The stems are erect, cylindrical, yellow-red.

The leaves are scaly, membranous, 1 2 cm long, with fine veins, and the lower part is short sheath-like.

Gastrodia (scientific name: Gastrodia Elata), also known as Red Arrow, Limu, Simmered Gastrodia, Ghost Doctor, Shencao, Duyao Zhizhi, Red Arrow Fat, Dingfeng Grass, Heli Grass, Duyao, Automatic Grass, Water Artichoke, Tomorrow Hemp, etc.

Gastrodia gastrodia perennial parasitic herb, is a plant of the genus Gastrodia in the orchid family, and the epithet elata means "high", so it is also turned into a high red arrow.

The underground rhizomes are tuber-shaped, 8 12 cm long, 3 5 cm in diameter, up to 7 cm in diameter, oval, with many pittings, wrinkles and whorls on the surface. Stems erect, tall rice, up to 2 m at the largest, orange-yellow, yellowish-brown, grayish-brown or blue-green, cylindrical, without green leaves, leaves scaly, alternate, membranous, lower sheath-like stems.

The flowers are pale yellowish-green or orange-red, with 20 50 flowers at the apex of the stem, racemes, 5 30 cm long, up to 50 cm long, flowering order from bottom to top. bracts membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 1 cm long; peduncle and ovary centimeter long, slightly shorter than bracts; The flowers are twisted, orange-yellow, yellowish-yellowish, blue-green, or yellowish-white, almost erect.

The sepals and petals are combined to form an oblique pot-shaped tepal tube, which is about 1 cm long, 5 7 mm in diameter, obliquely shaped at the mouth, 5-lobed at the apex, and the sepals on both sides are 5 mm deep; The outer chaels are sepals, triangular-ovate, apex obtuse; The inner chakra lobes are detached petals, oblong, and small.

labial flap white, oblong-ovate, 6 7 mm long, 3 4 mm wide, apex 3-lobed, base close to the end of stigma foot, with a pair of fleshy corpus callosum, corpus callosum connected to the inner tepal tube, upper part detached, with papillae, margins with irregular deep teeth; The stigma is 5 7 mm long, with a short stigma foot, the ovary is subordinate, obovate, the ovary stalk is twisted, and the stigma is 3-lobed.

The anthers are large, nearly apical, pollen masses 2, granular powdery, composed of small separable clumps, without pollen stalks and sticky discs. Because Gastrodia looks like a red arrow, it is also called a red arrow. Capsule about 30 per plant, oblong or obovate, long centimeters, 8 9 mm wide.

The seeds are numerous, 2 40,000 seeds per fruit, very small, powdered. The flowering period is 6 to 7 months, and the fruiting period is 7 to 8 months.

Cultivated. Gastrodia gastrodia needs to live in symbiosis with the fungus Honey Ring on rotten wood, relying on the fungal hyphae to invade the root system to absorb nutrients. Therefore, it is necessary to choose the wood for the growth of honey ring fungus, and the wood is more suitable for hard rough wood, you can choose water green grass, oak, birch, alder, chestnut and other tree species.

After selecting the tree species, the wood is cut into large sections, and a small hole is cut every ten centimeters, and the whole is arranged in the shape of fish scales. After inoculating the honey ring fungus, the section of wood is arranged into two layers in the pit, filled with humus between the layers, maintaining the appropriate temperature and humidity, after 2 or 4 months, the honey ring fungus can be grown, and then the rotten honey ring fungus is removed, the good growth of the honey ring fungus is retained, and the hemp seeds are planted between the two layers of fungus when sowing, and the soil is refilled.

If you use seeds or capsules for sexual propagation, you can also use the above method, just put more mulch such as leaves and humus between the two layers of fungus when sowing.

1. The efficacy of gastrodia:

1) Breathing wind and relieving spasms, used for liver wind internal movement, epilepsy and convulsions. Gastrodia enters the liver, the function is to relieve wind and stop spasms, and it is sweet and not strong, and the effect is peaceful. Therefore, it can be used to treat all kinds of liver wind internal movement, epilepsy and convulsions, regardless of cold, heat, deficiency and reality, it can be used compatible.

It is known as the wind grass and the miracle medicine for curing wind, which shows that its curative effect on liver wind is outstanding. If it is used to treat children's acute convulsions, this product can be compatible with antelope horn, hook vine, whole scorpion and other medicines, that is, hook vine drink; It is used to treat children's spleen deficiency and slow shock, and it is compatible with ginseng, atractylodes, white zombie silkworm and other medicines, such as spleen awakening pills. It is used to treat tetanus spasmodic convulsions, angular arch reflexion, and is compatible with Aracea, white aconite, parsnip and other medicines, such as Yu Zhensan.

2) Calm liver yang, used for dizziness and headache. Gastrodia not only calms the liver wind, but also calms the liver yang, so it is a good medicine for dizziness and headache. Regardless of false evidence, it can be applied with different compatibility, and the effect is remarkable.

It is used to treat dizziness and headache of hyperactivity on the liver and yang, and is often used in the same way as hook vine, stone cassia, ox knee, etc., such as gastrodia hook vine drink. It is used to treat dizziness and headache caused by wind and phlegm disturbance, and is often used in the same way as Banxia, Atractylodes, Poria cocos, etc., such as Banxia Atractylodes Gastrodia Soup.

3) Dispelling wind and channeling, used for limb numbness, spasm and convulsions, rheumatism and pain. Gastrodia also has the effect of dispelling external wind and clearing meridians. It is used to treat symptoms such as limb numbness, spasm and convulsions in the meridians, and is often used in conjunction with Chuanxiong, such as gastrodia pills.

For those who are unfavorable for the treatment of rheumatism and paralysis and pain, it is mostly used in conjunction with rheumatism-dispelling drugs such as Qingang, Qianghuo, and mulberry branches, such as Qingang gastrodia soup.

2. How to take gastrodia:

Gastrodia can be cooked with old hens, the main effect is the effect of gastrodia to calm the liver and quench wind, gastrodia can also be used alone, can be decocted in water, can have some effects of flattening the liver and quenching wind, reducing high blood pressure and lowering blood lipids.