What are the benefits of Gastrodia elata to the body? What is the best way to eat it?

Gastrodia elata is a commonly used and expensive traditional Chinese medicine. It is mostly used clinically for headaches, dizziness, numbness of limbs, infantile convulsions, epilepsy, convulsions, and tetanus. In practical applications, Gastrodia elata has significant curative effects on various types of headaches, neurasthenia, insomnia, and forgetfulness. It has a good effect on treating Alzheimer's disease, dizziness, blurred vision, dizziness, flushed face, lightheadedness and other symptoms of liver-yang hyperactivity and dizziness caused by wind and phlegm

Gastrodia contains gastrodin and more than 10 kinds of High content of elements necessary for the human body, such as potassium, sodium, calcium, sulfur, phosphorus, boron, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, rubidium, etc. The gastrodin content of wild Gastrodia elata in Dafang, Guizhou is 0.5-1.0, with an average value of 0.77. Compared with ordinary Gastrodia elata medicinal materials, Dafang Gastrodia has a firmer and heavier texture, fewer ring lines, smaller terminal buds, a more uniform and bright cross section, and a stronger specific smell. Do you know the best way to eat Gastrodia elata?

1. Gastrodia elata meat slices soup

Ingredients: 100 grams of fresh gastrodia elata, 100 grams of lean pork, 10 grams of vegetable oil, soy sauce, pepper, cooking wine, salt, appropriate amount of MSG, three cloves of garlic , a piece of ginger, 2 chives.

Processing method:

1. Wash and slice fresh Gastrodia elata or dried Gastrodia elata. Let the dried Gastrodia elata water soak for a day and then slice it. Slice lean pork, slice garlic, and cut green onion into sections.

2. Apply water starch on the meat slices.

3. Put 10 grams of vegetable oil into the pot, heat it up, pour in the garlic and fry over low heat, add broth or boiling water.

4. Then add the gastrodia elata slices. After the soup boils, add the chives, ginger slices, broth, soy sauce, pepper, cooking wine, MSG and other seasonings. Stir a few times to make it Mix thoroughly;

5. Then add the meat slices and cook again. When the meat slices are cooked, scoop them up.

Efficacy: It has a relieving effect on headaches and dizziness.

2. Gastrodia powder: Beat Gastrodia powder into powder, and swallow 5 grams of Gastrodia powder with cold water every day.

Efficacy: It has effects on dizziness and headache, neurological migraine, numbness of limbs, neurasthenia, insomnia, etc.

3. Steamed Gastrodia elata with rock sugar

Wash the Gastrodia elata and put it in a bowl with the same weight of rock sugar. Add cold water. The water submerges the Gastrodia elata and the rock sugar. Steam until the Gastrodia elata is soft and then add it to the soup. edible.

Efficacy: It has effects on dizziness, headache, neurological migraine, insomnia, Alzheimer's disease, etc.

4. Gastrodia stewed pig's feet

Ingredients: 50 grams of dried gastrodia, one pig's foot, about 500 grams of white radish, 5 each of nutmeg and amomum villosum, 2 bay leaves slices, appropriate amount of salt, appropriate amount of pepper, fresh vegetables and 200 grams of bean sprouts.

1. Wash the gastrodia elata, wash and cut pig's feet into pieces, wash and cut white radish into pieces, wash and cut fresh vegetables into sections, and wash bean sprouts.

2. Add cold water to the pressure cooker, put in the diced pig's feet, bring to a boil over high heat and remove the foam.

3. Then add gastrodia elata, white radish, nutmeg, amomum villosum, bay leaves, and pepper. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

4. Put the stewed ingredients into the pot, add appropriate amount of salt and MSG, and it is ready to eat.

Efficacy: It has effects on dizziness, headache, neurological migraine, insomnia, etc.

Finally, I would like to remind you again that although gastrodia elata is a good thing, it is not recommended to "see a doctor" for yourself. Don't delay when you are not feeling well. Taking care of a disease is like raising a tiger. A big tiger can hurt people.