How to eat Gastrodia elata

Gastrodia elata is one of the more precious traditional Chinese medicines and its price is generally quite high. However, Gastrodia elata has many functions, especially its high medicinal value. In addition to being made into medicinal materials, Gastrodia elata can also be added to food and is very common in many medicinal foods. Gastrodia elata can not only soften blood vessels, but can also be used to prevent cancer. So, how should Gastrodia elata be consumed?

How to eat Gastrodia elata

Gastrodia elata is a precious medicinal material. Even the wholesale price in the market is about 150/kg, let alone ordinary people who buy it for their own consumption! How should we take Gastrodia elata to achieve the best effect?

Here is a recipe for Tianma Fish Head Soup that can improve eyesight, reduce the three highs, soften blood vessels, supplement calcium, strengthen the brain and prevent cancer! Eat it happily and keep healthy~!

The ingredients needed for Tianma Fish Head Soup include:

Ingredients: 15g Gastrodia elata, 1 fish head

Accessories: 3 dried dates, 1 handful of wolfberries, 1 piece of tofu

Seasoning: 5 grams of salt, 5 slices of ginger, 5 grams of vegetable oil

practice:

1. Prepare the above materials. Wash the fish head first and then put it on a strainer to drain the water for later use; wash and tear the jujube; cut the tofu into small pieces for later use.

2. Prepare a clay pot, add two bowls of water, put in Gastrodia elata and jujube, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and continue cooking for 40 minutes.

3. When the Gastrodia elata and jujube water is almost cooked, prepare a frying pan, add appropriate amount of vegetable oil and ginger slices, put in the fish head and fry until both sides are golden brown.

4. Put the fried fish head into the cooking pot, add three bowls of water and bring to a boil. Continue to cook for 10 minutes. You will find that the color of the soup has turned white, which looks very good. At this time, continue to add the tofu cut into small pieces and continue to boil over high heat.

5. Then pour the fish head soup into a large clay pot and cook it together with the Gastrodia elata and jujube water for about 20 minutes. Then add wolfberry and finally add a little salt to season.

The efficacy and function of Gastrodia elata

Many people know that Gastrodia elata can treat headaches, and many people even buy a lot of Gastrodia elata for this effect. But besides relieving headaches, what other functions does Gastrodia elata have?

Now let's analyze the effects and functions of Gastrodia elata!

NO.1: Analgesic effect is the most concerned!

Gastrodia elata can be used to make Gastrodia elata injection, which can significantly relieve the pain of trigeminal neuralgia, vascular neuralgia headache, toxic polyneuritis and cerebrovascular headache, with an effective rate of up to 90%!

NO.2: Improve your eyesight and become smarter!

Gastrodia elata is very beneficial to the human brain and nervous system because it can protect and regulate the brain and enhance the resolution ability of the optic nerve. At present, some high-altitude flight personnel have adopted Gastrodia elata as health food or brain health medicine. In Japan, there are even cases of using Gastrodia elata injection to treat Alzheimer's disease, and the effect has been recognized.

NO.3: Sedation and inhibition of central nervous system excitement

Can Gastrodia elata also act as a sedative? Yes, some medical institutions use synthetic gastrodin, also known as gastrodin glycoside, to treat patients with neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome. It can inhibit the central nervous system excitatory effects caused by caffeine. At the same time, it can also enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital sodium.

NO.4: Calming the liver, replenishing qi and lowering blood pressure

Because Gastrodia elata can calm the liver, invigorate qi, strengthen tendons, strengthen bones, and benefit the waist and knees, and it can also increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, it can not only treat high blood pressure, but also has a certain effect in preventing heart disease.

NO.5: Good anticonvulsant effect

For example, some symptoms such as limb numbness, facial nerve twitching, hemiplegia and epilepsy can be treated with Gastrodia elata to a certain extent. In addition, Gastrodia elata can relieve smooth muscle spasms and help relieve angina pectoris and biliary colic.