How to identify wild Gastrodia elata

How to identify real wild Gastrodia elata

Gastrodia elata is one of the precious Chinese medicinal materials,

it can be used as both food and medicine.

Most of the Gastrodia elata on the market now is home grown,

Real wild Gastrodia elata

is already very rare. How to buy wild Gastrodia elata? Let me teach you. Three generations of my family have been digging wild gastrodia elata.

This is the expert’s summary of how to identify wild Gastrodia elata:

1

. The appearance is oval, slightly flat, and curved in the middle, which is what people often say Short and plump;

2

The surface is grayish-yellow or light brown, with longitudinal wrinkles and fine lines, commonly known as "ginger skin-like"

3

. There are obvious links composed of small brown and black dots, which are commonly called "sesame points"

4

. One end is slightly pointed, and there are fashionable brown-red dots. The dry and residual buds are commonly called "parrot's mouth"

, and there is a round umbilical scar on the other end, which is commonly known as "belly button"

5

. Cross section of rosin is hard, not easy to break, flat in section, translucent leathery, white or light brown, heavy and solid.

6

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There is no sour taste when cooked.

It means that it has not been smoked by sulfur.

The gastrodia elata sold in many stores now is very beautiful.

But

it is Smoked from sulfur.

The secret formula for identifying Gastrodia elata is “parrot’s mouth, concave navel, and dotted dried ginger peel outside, remember the cross section of rosin.

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