How to cook gastrodia elata? What's the effect?

Gastrodia elata is flat in efficacy and action, and sweet in taste. Calm the liver, calm the wind and stop spasm. Can be used for treating headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, convulsion, epilepsy, convulsion, tetanus, etc. The dosage is 3-9g. App application

1. Liver wind moves internally and convulsions occur. This product mainly enters the liver meridian, has the function of calming wind and relieving spasm, and is sweet and moist in taste and mild in medicinal properties. Therefore, regardless of cold and heat deficiency, it can be used to treat liver wind internal movement, convulsion, epilepsy and convulsion of various reasons. For children with acute convulsion, it is often combined with wind-calming and antispasmodic drugs such as antelope horn, Uncaria rhynchophylla and scorpion, such as Uncaria rhynchophylla (Medical Zong Jin Jian); For children with spleen deficiency and slow convulsion, it is used together with ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala and Bombyx Batryticatus, such as Xingpi Pill (Puji Skill Formula); For infantile convulsion, it can be combined with Scorpio, Rhizoma Arisaematis Preparata and Bombyx Batryticatus, such as Tianma Pill (Wei Jia Zang Fang). For tetanus, convulsion and angular bow, it can also be combined with Rhizoma Arisaematis, Rhizoma Typhonii and Radix Saposhnikoviae, such as Yu Zhen San (authentic surgery).

2. dizziness and headache. This product not only calms liver wind, but also calms liver yang, and is an important drug for treating dizziness and headache. Both deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome can be used in different combinations. For dizziness and headache caused by hyperactivity of liver-yang, it is often used with Uncaria, Concha Haliotidis and Achyranthes bidentata, such as Tianma Gouteng Decoction (new meaning for treating miscellaneous diseases). For dizziness, headache and chest tightness caused by wind-phlegm disturbance, it is often used with Pinellia ternata, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Poria and Atractylodis Macrocephala, such as Pinellia Atractylodis Macrocephalae Tianma Decoction. If the patient has headache and dizziness due to injection of head wind attack, it can be made into pills with the same amount of Ligusticum chuanxiong, such as Tianma Pill (Puji Formula).

3. Numbness of limbs, paralysis of hands and feet, rheumatic joint pain. This product can also dispel wind, dredge collaterals and relieve pain. Can be used for treating apoplexy, paralysis of hands and feet, and pain of bones and muscles. And can be combined with myrrh, aconite and musk, such as Tianma Pill (Shengji Zonglu); Can be used for treating female wind arthralgia and hand and foot paralysis, and can be soaked in Achyranthes bidentata and Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And aconite root, such as Gastrodia elata wine (Ten Convenient Prescription); For arthralgia due to rheumatism, joint flexion and extension are unfavorable, it is usually used together with rheumatism-removing drugs such as Gentiana macrophylla, Notopterygium root and mulberry branch, such as Gentiana Tianma decoction. (medical understanding).

Usage and dosage: decocted, 3-9g. Take it after grinding, each time1~1.5g.

Uncaria rhynchophylla, antelope horn and gastrodia elata have the functions of calming the liver, calming the wind and suppressing yang, and can be used to treat the syndrome of liver wind moving internally and liver yang hyperactivity. Uncaria rhynchophylla is cool, light and clear, and it is better at clearing heat and calming wind, so it is suitable for treating febrile convulsions in children. Antelope horn is cold and has strong heat-clearing ability. In addition to treating wind syndrome caused by extreme heat, it can also clear the heart and detoxify, and is mostly used for high fever, coma and toxic heat. Gastrodia elata is sweet, flat and moist, and its heat-clearing ability is not as good as that of Uncaria rhynchophylla and antelope horn, but it can be combined with deficiency of cold and heat and deficiency of liver wind and convulsion to dispel wind and relieve pain.

Ancient book abstracts

1. "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Main rheumatism, limb contracture, infantile wind epilepsy, convulsion, waist and knees, strong tendons."

2. "medication method": "treat adult wind-heat headache; Children with epilepsy and wind shock; The wind is numb; The language of wind and heat is not good. "

3. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Headwind, headache, dizziness, convulsion, limb spasm, language disorder, all strokes, wind phlegm."

Modern research

1. chemical composition: this product contains gastrodin, gastrodin aglycone, β -sitosterol and carotene, citric acid and its monomethyl ester, palmitic acid, succinic acid and sucrose. It also contains gastrodia elata polysaccharide, vitamin A, various amino acids, trace alkaloids and trace elements such as chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc.

2. Pharmacological effects: The water extract, alcohol extract and different preparations of Gastrodia elata can obviously reduce the spontaneous activity of mice, prolong the sleep time of mice caused by barbital sodium and cyclohexene barbital sodium, and inhibit or shorten the seizure time of experimental epilepsy. Gastrodia elata polysaccharide can also reduce the resistance of peripheral blood vessels, cerebrovascular vessels and coronary vessels, and has the functions of lowering blood pressure, slowing heart rate, analgesia and anti-inflammation. Gastrodia elata polysaccharide has immune activity.

3. Clinical study: It is reported that 66 cases of traumatic brain injury syndrome with headache, dizziness and sleep disorder as the main symptoms were treated by intramuscular injection of Tianma injection, with a total effective rate of 97% (new drug and clinic, 1985, 2: 8); Gastrodia elata injection is used to treat mild tetanus. Taking 15 ~ 120 minutes, the effect is obvious, the patient is quiet, and the number of convulsions is reduced, showing a sedative effect (Shaanxi New Medicine, 198 1, 1: 45). 90 cases of vertigo were treated with Rhizoma Gastrodiae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparata, and the total effective rate was 94.4% (Journal of Practical Medicine, 1994, 1.50). Gastrodia elata is also used to treat neurasthenia, neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, hyperlipidemia and senile vascular dementia.

4. Adverse reactions: Gastrodia elata and Gastrodia elata preparations occasionally have allergic reactions and poisoning. Such as: oral gastrodia elata powder causes urticaria drug eruption; Oral Tianma pill causes allergic purpura; Anaphylactic shock caused by intramuscular injection of gastrodia elata: acute renal failure and coma caused by large dose of gastrodia elata. The rescue methods of gastrodia elata poisoning are: early vomiting and gastric lavage; Allergic reactions and renal failure can be treated symptomatically.