What are the effects of wild Gastrodia elata

Gastrodia elata itself is a relatively precious Chinese medicine, and wild Gastrodia elata is even rarer. Gastrodia elata has no green leaves, no flowers, and no fragrance, but its roots are extremely precious and have strong medicinal value. Wild Gastrodia elata has analgesic and tranquilizing effects, which can soothe the patient's emotions and relieve pain. Gastrodia elata can also lower blood pressure, protect the heart, maintain physical health, and regulate and protect the brain nerves. It can improve our eyesight and enhance the brain's memory ability. It is a very good brain health care herb.

1. Analgesic effect: It has obvious analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, vascular neurosis headache, cerebrovascular disease headache, toxic polyneuritis, etc.

2. Sedative effect: Some medical institutions use synthetic gastrodin (Gastrodin) to treat patients with neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome. It can also inhibit the excitatory effects of heat stroke caused by caffeine and enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital.

3. Anticonvulsant effect: Gastrodia elata has certain therapeutic effects on facial nerve convulsions, limb numbness, hemiplegia, epilepsy, etc. It can also relieve smooth muscle spasms, angina pectoris and biliary colic.

4. Blood pressure lowering effect: Gastrodia elata can treat high blood pressure. Long-term use can calm the liver and replenish qi, benefit the waist and knees, strengthen the tendons and bones, and also increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, which has a protective effect on the heart.

5. Improve eyesight and enhance intelligence: Gastrodia elata can improve eyesight and significantly enhance memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulatory effects on the human brain nervous system, can enhance the resolution ability of the optic nerve, and has been used as a brain health food or brain health medicine for high-altitude flyers.

Wild Gastrodia elata contains more medicinal ingredients than artificially cultivated ones, and also has a special fragrance that lasts for a long time. Ordinary Gastrodia elata does not have such a long-lasting odor. Because wild Gastrodia elata grows naturally, it is thinner than ordinary Gastrodia elata and has different shapes. It has a black skin and about 10 ring marks. When purchasing wild Gastrodia elata, be careful to distinguish it from artificially cultivated ones to avoid being deceived.