How to eat Gastrodia elata to treat headache? Gastrodia elata, also known as dingfengcao, is sweet in taste and smooth in nature. It has the effects of calming wind and spasm, calming liver Yang, removing wind and dredging collaterals. Gastrodia elata is a common medicine, but many people like to put some in the soup, the therapeutic effect is also very good, so how to eat Gastrodia elata to treat headache and dizziness?
Headache and dizziness caused by Gastrodia elata
Gastrodia elata is a traditional Chinese medicine with a history of 3000 years, also known as red arrow, Dingfeng grass, water yam, etc. according to the earliest Chinese medicine book Shennong Materia Medica, red arrow has a pungent and nontoxic smell, which mainly kills ghosts, poisonous insects, and evil wind. It can nourish Qi, nourish yin and nourish health. Zhang Yinan, a doctor, explained: 'the smell of red arrow is sweet. Its root is named gastrodia, and its smell is sweet. The smell of Xinwen is gold. Gold can make wind. Tianma Ganping belongs to the soil, which can overcome dampness and live in the middle of the five transportations, so it can cure Gu poison and evil wind. According to compendium of Materia Medica, Gastrodia elata enters the liver and channels Qi.
The seeds of Gastrodia elata are so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye at all, so the ancients said that 'ordinary people can't plant'. Of course, this claim was later overturned by strain experts. Strain experts have studied the growing environment of Gastrodia elata and successfully cultivated it in a ring, which has turned this mountain 'magic medicine' into an artificial plant and further popularized its use.
Gastrodia elata is sweet and smooth. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five elements of the spleen belong to the earth, and the earth can overcome dampness. Therefore, one of the functions of Gastrodia elata is to remove the dampness of the spleen. Gastrodia elata 'enters the liver and divides Qi', and the liver belongs to wood, which is called 'wind' in nature. Therefore, another important role of Gastrodia elata is to treat 'wind'. Wind evil is characterized by good deeds and changes, and wind evil can invade human body, such as wind dampness, wind cold, wind heat and so on. It has been proved that Gastrodia elata can treat both internal wind and external wind through clinical practice.
The treatment of headache and dizziness caused by internal wind refers to liver wind. Liver wind disturbance, brain orifices adverse, can appear dizziness, headache, neck discomfort, tongue light red, tongue coating white or yellow, pulse string. It can be treated with Tianma Gouteng Decoction. If the liver wind is troubled by dampness, dizziness, heaviness, distention, neck ache, limb sleepiness, nausea and stupidity, dry mouth without drinking water, light and greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse, it can be treated with Pinellia Atractylodes Rhizoma Gastrodia Decoction; if the liver is weathered hot, the liver fire inflammation will be treated with headache, dizziness, restlessness, limb tremor, insomnia, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, and pulse number, it can be treated with Zhenganxifeng decoction 。
Headache and dizziness caused by external wind usually occur in the occipital or temple, one side or both sides, sometimes limited to the scalp, but the pain is uncertain, the limbs are sour, the tongue is red, moss or white or yellow, the wind is cold or hot, the pulse is tight or the number of strings. The best medicine to treat the external wind is not gastrodia, but Ligusticum chuanxiong, Vitex, Fangfeng and other drugs. Therefore, it can be used to treat the external wind headache with Gastrodia.
How to eat Gastrodia to treat headache? How to eat Gastrodia to treat migraine:
1. Boiled eggs with gastrodia elata
Materials: 60 g fresh gastrodia, 3 eggs, 1000 g water.
Method: put the fresh gastrodia slices into the pot and boil for 30 minutes, then put in the eggs and cook them well before eating. Once a day, or every other day.
Efficacy: treat headache and dizziness
2. Stewed chicken with gastrodia elata
Materials: native chicken, gastrodia, jujube, medlar, ginger
Method: wash the local chicken and cut into pieces. Wash gastrodia, slice, jujube, medlar, ginger slice. Heat a pot of boiling water, blanch and blanch the chicken until it changes color, then remove. Put the blanched chicken into the casserole, pour enough cold water into the casserole, and put in ginger slices and pepper. After boiling, change to medium low heat, put in gastrodia, jujube and wolfberry, cover and cook for more than 2-3 hours, add salt.
Efficacy: Gastrodia elata is an expensive traditional Chinese medicine ingredient. It has the effect of Tonifying the brain and calming the nerves. It can also relieve pain and reduce blood pressure.
3. Gastrodia duck
Materials: 100g fresh gastrodia, 15g Lycium barbarum, 1 duck.
Method: kill the duck, remove the hair and internal organs, and stew with gastrodia elata and wolfberry. When the duck is ripe, add salt, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings.
Efficacy: Nourishing Yin and nourishing yang, calming liver and calming wind. It is suitable for yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, threatened abortion, dizziness, tinnitus, headache, mouth pain and dry throat.
4. Stewed pigeon with Gastrodia and yam
Materials: 100g of fresh gastrodia, fresh yam and scallion, 4 pigeons, 25g of ginger slices, 35g of cooking wine and 10g of refined salt.
Method: Boil the above medicine materials with water in a large fire, skim off the surface froth, stew in a small fire for 60 minutes, add salt to taste and then serve.
Efficacy: tonifying liver, kidney, spleen, stomach, Qi, lung, kidney and essence. It can treat weakness, impotence, premature ejaculation, thirst, women's blood deficiency, irregular menstruation, headache, dizziness, etc.