| drug name | Gastrodia Tuber |
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This product is the tuber of the perennial orchid family Chinese Taxillus Herb Gastrodia Tuber (Gastrodia elata Bl.). It is distributed throughout the north and south of my country, and is mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places. It is collected in winter and spring. When the stems are dry in winter, it is called "Winter Ma" and the quality is excellent; when it is sprouting in spring, it is called "Chun Ma" and the quality is poor. After excavation, remove above-ground stems and fibrous roots, wash, steam thoroughly, sun-dry, air-dry or dry. Rinse thoroughly before use and slice into slices.
sweet, neutral. act on liver channel.
It calms wind and relieves spasm, calms liver yang, dispels wind and unblocks collaterals.
- Used for internal stirring of liver wind and fright epilepsy convulsion. Gastrodia Tuber enters the liver and has the function of calming wind and relieving spasm. It is sweet and moist but not strong and has a mild effect. Therefore, it can be used to treat various disease causes such as internal stirring of liver wind, fright epilepsy convulsion, and combination of medicinals regardless of Hanre deficiency and excess. If used to treat acute infantile convulsion in children, this product can be combined with antelope horn, Uncaria, whole scorpion and other medicinals, that is, Uncaria Decoction; used to treat spleen deficiency and chronic tremor in children, it can be used with Ginseng, White Atractylodes Rhizome, white Stiff Silkworm and other drugs combination of medicinals, such as Xingpi Pills; used to treat tetanus convulsion and opisthotonus, and also combined with Arisaema, giant typhonium rhizome, Saposhnikovia Root combination of medicinals, such as Jade-like Vitality Powder. In recent years, vanillin tablets have been prepared by extracting active ingredients from Gastrodia Tuber, which is effective in treating major and minor epileptic seizures.
- For vertigo, headache. Gastrodia Tuber not only relieves liver wind, but also calms liver yang, so it is a good medicine for vertigo. Used to treat ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang such as vertigo and headache, often used with Uncaria, Abalone Shell, Achyranthes Root, such as Gastrodia Tuber Uncaria Decoction; used to treat vertigo and headache caused by wind phlegm, often combined with Pineilia, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Poria is equivalent to Pineilia, White Atractylodes and Gastrodia Decoction. In recent years, the application of Tricycline tablets to treat hyperlipidemia can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and serum triglycerides. At the same time, systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure has also been reduced to varying degrees, and symptoms such as dizziness, headache, and chest tightness have also improved.
- It is used for limb numbness, spasm, convulsion and wind-dampness. Gastrodia Tuber also has the effect of dispelling external wind and unblocking the meridians. It is used to treat apoplexy involving meridians, hand and foot paralysis, limb numbness, spasm and convulsion. It is often used together with Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, such as Gastrodia Pill; it is used to treat wind-dampness, numbness and difficulty in joint flexion and extension. It is often used together with wind-dampness relieving medicines such as Gentian, ginger, mulberry twig, such as Gentian Gastrodia Tuber decoction. 20% Gastrodia Tuber injection is currently used clinically for intramuscular injection to treat sciatica, trigeminal neuralgia and supraorbital neuralgia, and is quite effective in relieving pain.
- Benjing: "Taking tonifying qi for a long time will make you grow yin, fat and healthy, lighten your body, and increase your age."
- Kaibao Bencao: "The Lord Various wind-dampness paralysis, spasm of limbs, wind epilepsy and fright in children, sharpening waist and knees, strengthening muscles. "
- Bencao Huiyan: "Mainly used for head wind, headache, dizziness, and strong epilepsy. Spasms, jerky limbs, difficulty speaking, all apoplexy, wind phlegm."
3 to 10 grams, decoct and take. 1~1.5g, grind into powder and take infused.
This product contains vanillin alcohol, vanillin aldehyde, vitamin A substances, glycosides, crystalline neutral substances and trace amounts of alkaloids and mucilage. Gastrodia Tuber can reduce peripheral vascular and coronary vascular resistance, lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate and analgesic effects. Gastrodia Tuber polysaccharides are immunologically active.
Gastrodia Tuber is known as Red Arrow in Benjing. Gastrodia Tuber must live in symbiosis with the bacteria Alyssa and forms a very close nutritional relationship with the bacteria during its growth and reproduction. Recent studies have proven that the solid culture material of Alymphococcus aureus has similar pharmacological effects and clinical efficacy to Gastrodia Tuber. Therefore Accelacyclococcus aureus can be used as a medicinal substitute for Gastrodia Tuber, and Acceleratococcus aureus tablets have been used in clinical applications.
