【 Overview 】 Perennial herb with fleshy underground stems, apricot-red aboveground stems, scaly leaves and yellow-red flowers. Tubers are used as medicine for dizziness and headache.
Source This product is the dried tuber of Gastrodia elata. Belongs to Lancome.
Sweet and flat in nature. Liver meridian.
Indications: calming the liver, calming the wind and relieving spasm. Used for headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs, convulsion, epilepsy and tetanus.
App application
1. Used for dizziness. For dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, it can be used with Uncaria and Concha Haliotidis. For wind-phlegm vertigo, it can be used equally with Banxia, Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria.
2. Used for fever, convulsion and convulsion. For patients with high fever, convulsion, convulsion, and inversion of angular arch, it is often combined with Uncaria and Scorpio.
3. Used for headache, joint pain and numbness of limbs. Chuanxiong rhizome is used to treat headache, scorpion and frankincense are used to treat joint pain. In addition, for numbness of limbs and paralysis of hands and feet, it is often used with Angelica sinensis and Achyranthes bidentata, which is commonly used in clinic.
Usage and dosage: decocted, 3-9g.
clinical application
1. Used for dizziness. For dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, it can be used with Uncaria and Concha Haliotidis. For wind-phlegm vertigo, it can be used equally with Banxia, Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria.
2. Used for fever, convulsion and convulsion. For patients with high fever, convulsion, convulsion, and inversion of angular arch, it is often combined with Uncaria and Scorpio.
3. Used for headache, joint pain and numbness of limbs. Chuanxiong rhizome is used to treat headache, scorpion and frankincense are used to treat joint pain. In addition, for numbness of limbs and paralysis of hands and feet, it is often used with Angelica sinensis and Achyranthes bidentata, which is commonly used in clinic.
Gastrodia elata, also known as red arrow, headwind grass, water potato and so on. , a perennial herb of Gastrodia in Orchidaceae, whose dried tubers are used as medicine. Gastrodia elata is a famous Chinese herbal medicine, which was used as medicine many years ago. It is pungent, mild and nontoxic. According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, Gastrodia elata (then known as Red Arrow) has the functions of treating convulsion, coma, invigorating qi and benefiting spirit. Can be used for treating dizziness, headache, vertigo, migraine, language paralysis, infantile convulsion, limb spasm, arthralgia due to wind-cold and dampness, neurasthenia, etc. Clinical application has proved that it has obvious curative effect on angioneurotic headache and concussion sequelae.