Gastrodia elata porridge

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Gastrodia elata porridge

Legend has it that Gastrodia elata fell from heaven and died on its own, so it was called Gastrodia elata. It also looks like the feet of an immortal, so people call it the feet of an immortal. It settled down in the human world, had children, and was unwilling to return to heaven, so people called it the plant that could not be beaten back. Therefore, the feet of an immortal and the feet of an immortal became another name for Gastrodia elata.

As a traditional Chinese medicine, Gastrodia elata was first recorded in Shennong's Herbal Classic. It is also known as red arrow. It is the tuber of a perennial parasitic plant of the orchid family and must coexist with Armillaria mellea. Gastrodia elata is sweet and neutral in nature. It is good at extinguishing liver wind, calming liver yang, and removing wind and unblocking meridians. The effects of Gastrodia elata can be summarized as "three resistances, three calming, and one supplement", namely, anti-epileptic, anticonvulsant, anti-rheumatic, sedative, antispasmodic, analgesic, and tonic.

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In daily life, the first method of taking Gastrodia elata is to grind it into fine powder and take it with warm water, 1 gram to 1.5 grams each time. The second method is to stew it. Cut Gastrodia elata into thin slices and stew it in a covered container alone or with other nourishing foods. Gastrodia elata duck is a delicious medicinal food. Friends with symptoms such as yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, dizziness, tinnitus, headache, bitter mouth and dry throat may wish to try it. Kill a duck (about 500 grams), remove the hair and internal organs, and stew it with washed and sliced ​​Gastrodia elata (100 grams) and Rehmannia glutinosa (30 grams) until the duck is cooked, and add salt, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings. In addition, friends with hypertension can also use Gastrodia elata and pig brain to cook porridge with water. Gastrodia elata 10g, pig brain 1, polished rice 250g. Wash 1 pig brain, put it in a casserole with 10 grams of Gastrodia elata, then put in 100 grams of polished rice, add water and cook porridge until the porridge and brain are cooked. You can take warm porridge once every morning.

Gastrodia elata can treat dizziness and headaches, but not all dizziness and headaches can be treated with Gastrodia elata. Because there are many reasons that can cause dizziness and headaches. For example, anemia, malnutrition of the brain, or blood stasis in the body. To treat dizziness and headaches caused by these factors, it is only necessary to correct anemia and remove phlegm and blood stasis. Since Gastrodia elata does not have the effect of replenishing blood and removing phlegm and blood stasis, it cannot be used alone for treatment. It must be combined with blood-replenishing, phlegm-removing and blood stasis-removing drugs to treat both the symptoms and the root cause, and the dizziness and headache can be cured.

Many people take Gastrodia elata as a "tonic" for a long time, but they don't know that Gastrodia elata also has side effects. The ancients knew this long ago. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "If you take Gastrodia elata for a long time, your whole body will turn red." Common adverse reactions to taking Gastrodia elata include dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, skin papules with itching, etc., and some people may experience hair loss. Therefore, you should not take Gastrodia elata casually or for a long time.