Taking gastrodia elata for a long time can treat dizziness caused by hypertension, calm the liver and replenish qi, strengthen the w
Taking gastrodia elata for a long time can treat dizziness caused by hypertension, calm the liver and replenish qi, strengthen the waist and knees, strengthen the bones and muscles, increase the blood flow of peripheral and coronary arteries and protect the heart.
Text/Xia Jingang
Miss Zheng accompanied her 65-year-old father to see Chinese medicine. In fact, my father is not seriously ill, but the seemingly tolerable small symptoms on him will not only erode his quality of life, but even affect the family atmosphere. These days, my father's temper is like a storm, which has come inexplicably. His red face makes people look anxious, irritable and inaccessible. Miss Zheng patiently asked him what was going on.
Father sighed and said, "Alas! Insomnia at night, finally fell asleep and kept dreaming. Poor spirits during the day, sore eyes and dry mouth. I feel as if a fire has burned from my chest to my head. Among them, dizziness and migraine are the most unbearable. I feel dizzy, shake my head and can't walk. My body is very unhappy. How can I get better? 」
If you are often dizzy and have no idea about migraine, I believe you are no stranger to Mr. Zheng Lao's illness. Understand gastrodia elata, a good medicine for calming the liver and calming the wind, and listen to how traditional medicine can use it to improve annoying symptoms. According to Mr. Zheng's chief complaint, the pulse string and blood pressure are unstable, and the doctor concluded that the cause of dizziness and headache is hyperactivity of liver yang. Hyperactivity of liver yang is also called hypertension in western medicine. Western medicine will use drugs to alleviate and control the symptoms of elevated blood pressure. Although it can be effective in a short time, it can only cure the symptoms.
Find out the reasons and treat both the symptoms and the root causes.
The treatment of hypertension in TCM is different from that in western medicine. Chinese medicine will judge the cause and type of hypertension through its yin-yang theory. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that zang-fu organs and meridians include both yin and yang. In the liver, liver yin and liver yang depend on each other, use each other, unite in opposition, and maintain relative balance and stability. So as to maintain the normal function of the liver to release blood, body fluids and other nutrients to the whole body. Hyperactivity of liver yang refers to dizziness, headache, tinnitus, impatience, insomnia, dreaminess, dry mouth and bitter taste, rheumatic pain and other symptoms caused by hyperactivity of liver yang and insufficient inhibition of liver yin nourishment.
If the disease develops further, the liver-yang wind will form the liver wind moving inward, and there will be the possibility of hand and foot tremor, mouth deviation, sudden fainting and stroke paralysis. Gastrodia elata can regulate liver and kidney, make kidney water sufficient, nourish liver wood, and naturally calm deficiency wind. To explain the efficacy of Gastrodia elata from clinical research, arteriosclerosis is one of the causes of hypertension. When arteriosclerosis occurs, the blood vessels lose their elasticity, the pipes tend to narrow, the pressure increases, and the systolic and diastolic pressures of the heart will increase, making patients feel dizzy and headache.
Three obstacles, three towns and one supplement
According to clinical research, Gastrodia elata can dilate the cardiovascular system and reduce the pressure of blood on the blood vessel wall, thus achieving the effect of stopping dizziness. Taking gastrodia elata for a long time can treat dizziness caused by hypertension, calm the liver and replenish qi, strengthen the waist and knees, strengthen the bones and muscles, increase the blood flow of peripheral and coronary arteries and protect the heart. This vasodilation is also used to treat Alzheimer's disease. Studies in China and Japan have found that Gastrodia elata has the functions of increasing intelligence, strengthening the brain and delaying aging, thereby expanding blood vessels in the brain and increasing blood circulation, which has obvious protective and regulatory effects on the brain nervous system, and also has remarkable effects on enhancing memory. Taking it regularly can prevent dementia and is a very good brain health care drug.
Some Chinese doctors attribute the efficacy of Gastrodia elata to "three resistances, three towns and one tonic", that is, anti-epilepsy, anti-convulsion, anti-rheumatism, sedation, spasmolysis, analgesia and nourishing. With the rapid development of medical science and technology, Gastrodia elata has also been researched and developed with wider effects, such as obvious analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, angioneurotic headache, cerebrovascular headache and toxic polyneuritis.
Before taking medicine, confirm your constitution.
Gastrodia elata has anticonvulsant effect, contains a small amount of vitamin A and sugar, and has a calming effect, and can be used to treat neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome. It can also inhibit the excitement of heatstroke caused by caffeine and enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbital sodium. Gastrodia elata has certain curative effect on facial nerve spasm, limb numbness, hemiplegia and epilepsy. And relieve smooth muscle spasm, angina pectoris and biliary colic.
Gastrodia elata is the dried rhizome of the orchid plant Gastrodia elata, which is produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places in China. Also known as "red arrow", "tomorrow hemp" and "headwind grass". According to ancient records, it has been 20002060.