Gastrodia elata

Chinese herbal medicine perennial herb with fleshy underground stems, apricot-red aboveground stems, scaly leaves and yellow-red flowers. Tubers are used as medicine to treat dizziness and headache. This product is the dried tuber of Gastrodia elata Bl. of Orchidaceae. [Sexual taste and tropism] Sweet and flat. Meridian of liver. Indications: calming the liver, calming the wind and relieving spasm. Used for headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, infantile convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus. [Application] 1. Used for dizziness. For vertigo caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, it can be combined with Uncaria and Concha Haliotidis. For dizziness caused by wind and phlegm, it can be used equally with Banxia, Baizhu and Poria. 2. Used for fever, convulsion and convulsion. For patients with high fever, convulsion, convulsion and angular arch inversion, it is often combined with Uncaria and Scorpio. 3. Used for headache, arthralgia and numbness of limbs. Rhizoma Chuanxiong is used to treat headache, and Scorpio and Olibanum are used to treat arthralgia. In addition, for numbness of limbs and paralysis of hands and feet, it is often combined with Angelica sinensis and Achyranthes bidentata, which is commonly used in clinic.
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