What's the use of gastrodia elata?

This medicine is sweet in taste and flat in nature. Liver meridian.

It has the effects of calming the wind, relieving spasm, calming the liver and suppressing yang, expelling wind and dredging collaterals.

App application

1. Liver wind moves internally and convulsions occur. This product mainly enters the liver meridian, has the function of calming wind and relieving spasm, and is sweet and moist in taste and mild in medicinal properties. Therefore, regardless of cold and heat deficiency, it can be used to treat liver wind internal movement, convulsion, epilepsy and convulsion of various reasons. For children with acute convulsion, it is often combined with wind-calming and antispasmodic drugs such as antelope horn, Uncaria rhynchophylla and scorpion, such as Uncaria rhynchophylla (Medical Zong Jin Jian); For children with spleen deficiency and slow convulsion, it is used together with ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala and Bombyx Batryticatus, such as Xingpi Pill (Puji Skill Formula); For infantile convulsion, it can be combined with Scorpio, Rhizoma Arisaematis Preparata and Bombyx Batryticatus, for example, Tianma Pill (Wei's Jia Zang Fang). For tetanus, convulsion and angular bow, it can also be combined with Rhizoma Arisaematis, Rhizoma Typhonii and Radix Saposhnikoviae, such as Yu Zhen San (authentic surgery).

2. dizziness and headache. This product not only calms liver wind, but also calms liver yang, and is an important drug for treating dizziness and headache. Both deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome can be used in different combinations. For dizziness and headache caused by hyperactivity of liver-yang, it is often used with Uncaria, Concha Haliotidis and Achyranthes bidentata, such as Tianma Gouteng Decoction (new meaning for treating miscellaneous diseases). For dizziness, headache and chest tightness caused by wind-phlegm disturbance, it is often used with Pinellia ternata, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Poria and Atractylodis Macrocephala, such as Pinellia Atractylodis Macrocephalae Tianma Decoction. If the patient has headache and dizziness due to injection of head wind attack, it can be made into pills with the same amount of Ligusticum chuanxiong, such as Tianma Pill (Puji Formula).

3. Numbness of limbs, paralysis of hands and feet, rheumatic joint pain. This product can also dispel wind, dredge collaterals and relieve pain. Can be used for treating apoplexy, paralysis of hands and feet, and pain of bones and muscles. And can be combined with myrrh, aconite and musk, such as Tianma Pill (Shengji Zonglu); Can be used for treating female wind arthralgia and hand and foot paralysis, and can be soaked in Achyranthes bidentata and Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And aconite root, such as Gastrodia elata wine (Ten Convenient Prescription); For arthralgia due to rheumatism, joint flexion and extension are unfavorable, it is usually used together with rheumatism-removing drugs such as Gentiana macrophylla, Notopterygium root and mulberry branch, such as Gentiana Tianma decoction. (medical understanding).