What are the functions and effects of gastrodia elata?

Gastrodia elata is often used for headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, convulsion, epilepsy, convulsion, tetanus and other symptoms, also known as "Dingfengcao". Gastrodia elata governs the liver meridian, tastes sweet and moist, and has the functions of calming wind and relieving spasm, calming liver yang, expelling wind and dredging collaterals. Can be used for treating liver wind movement, convulsion, epilepsy and convulsion caused by various reasons, regardless of deficiency of both cold and heat.

Gastrodia elata can cure dizziness and headache: it has analgesic effect. Gastrodia elata injection can be used to treat trigeminal neuralgia, angioneurotic headache, cerebrovascular headache and toxic polyneuritis. Gastrodia elata can lower blood pressure, increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, and protect the heart.

Gastrodia elata has the functions of improving eyesight and obviously enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulatory effects on human brain nervous system and can enhance the resolution of optic nerve, which has been used as brain health care for altitude pilots.

Extended data:

Gastrodia elata is a very strange plant. It has no roots and green leaves, so it can't make nutrition by photosynthesis. How can such a rootless and leafless plant survive? It turned out that it was born with Armillaria mellea, and it relied on Armillaria mellea to provide nutrition for its growth.

When Armillaria mellea invades the cortex of Gastrodia elata, its mycelium can only survive in the cortex cells of tuber. When the mycelium further invades the tuber, the lysozyme unique to the tuber cells of Gastrodia elata dissolves the mycelium, thus releasing a large amount of nutrients in the mycelium for the growth of Gastrodia elata.

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