Gastrodia elata treating nervous headache

It is well known that Gastrodia elata has a very good therapeutic effect on headache, but few people know why Gastrodia elata can treat headache. To find out why Gastrodia elata can cure headache, we should start with the efficacy and medicinal properties of Gastrodia elata.

Gastrodia elata is sweet and flat. Chinese medicine believes that sweetness is closely related to the spleen. Of the five elements, the spleen belongs to the soil, and the five elements can resist dampness. So one of the functions of gastrodia elata is to remove spleen moisture.

Gastrodia elata "enters the liver meridian and divides qi". Liver belongs to wood in the five elements, and its nature is wind. Therefore, another important function of Gastrodia elata is to cure wind. The clinical practice of doctors in past dynasties has proved that Gastrodia elata can treat both internal wind and external wind. Gastrodia elata is characterized by its firmness and slight fragrance, and it can rise when falling. Descending refers to that damp turbidity can enter the spleen and descend, while ascending refers to the ascending and descending of Yang Qi or Qingqi.

Wind-evil is characterized by good deeds and variable numbers. Wind-evil can invade the human body with other pathogens, such as rheumatism, wind-cold, wind-heat and so on.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, wind can be divided into internal wind and external wind. Internal wind refers to wind caused by hepatic insufficiency. This kind of wind moves around in the body and always attacks the head, which often makes people feel headache and dizziness. There is also an external wind that invades the human body, and the wind that appears is called external wind. The first part of the human body attacked by external wind is also the head, because the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements holds that the upper part is Yang and the wind is Yang evil, which is the first offense. Therefore, the invasion of foreign pathogens into the human body will also cause headaches and dizziness.

So what are the characteristics of the internal wind? Internal wind refers to liver wind, which interferes with it and is unfavorable to the brain. Dizziness and headache, neck discomfort, reddish tongue, white or yellow tongue coating and thready pulse can be treated with Tianma Gouteng Decoction. Dampness due to liver wind can cause dizziness, neck pain, weakness of limbs, nausea and lethargy, dry mouth, greasy tongue and thready pulse. Banxia Baizhu Tianma Decoction can be used to treat this disease. When the liver is inflamed by hot wind, headache, dizziness, restlessness, limb tremor, insomnia, red tongue with yellow coating and rapid pulse can be treated with Zhengan Xifeng Decoction.

What are the characteristics of exogenous wind evil? Generally, it is caused by exogenous wind evil, sometimes severe, or in the pillow or temple, or unilateral or bilateral, but the pain is uncertain, the limbs are sour, the tongue is red, the coating is white or yellow, the wind is cold or hot, and the pulse is tight or rapid. The best medicine for treating exogenous wind is not gastrodia elata, but Chuanxiong, Vitex negundo and Saposhnikovia divaricata. Therefore, exterior-relieving drugs combined with gastrodia elata can treat exogenous headache.

In a word, Gastrodia elata is a "medicine for treating wind", which mainly treats internal wind. Gastrodia elata is not a good medicine for headache, but a good medicine for wind. Only according to the medicinal properties of gastrodia elata can it be used properly and accurately. If you can't see headache and dizziness, you can use gastrodia elata.

Gastrodia elata is not a panacea for all headaches. China's "popular culture" easily leads to two misunderstandings about TCM. One is to make Chinese medicine mysterious, and the other is to improve and beautify Chinese medicine. "Xuan" means that Chinese medicine is an incomprehensible immortal, while "perfection" means that Chinese medicine is a panacea for all diseases. Although these popular cultures promote the positive aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, they provide material for those "gentlemen" who think they are the embodiment of science to slander the non-science of traditional Chinese medicine.

Therefore, it is accurate to say that Gastrodia elata is a good medicine for headache caused by head wind. And the way of eating gastrodia elata is also very particular.

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