1 Select Rhizoma Gastrodiae and grind it into fine powder; Clean the rice,

2 put it in the pot, add water to cook porridge,

3 After cooking, add Gastrodia elata and white sugar, and cook once or twice a day 1 dose.

Efficacy of gastrodia elata porridge

Efficacy: calming the wind and relieving spasm, calming the liver and suppressing yang, expelling wind and dredging collaterals. Indications: It is suitable for liver wind, convulsion, dizziness, rheumatism, numbness of hands and feet, etc. Interpretation of porridge meaning: Gastrodia elata, also known as Red Arrow, Shencao and Mingri Ma, is the tuber of Gastrodia elata, a perennial parasitic herb in Orchidaceae. The spring digger named "Ma Chun" has poor quality; In winter, when the stem is dry, it is called "Madong", and the quality is better. Due to the shortage of gastrodia elata, Armillaria mellea was developed to replace gastrodia elata, and the clinical observation effect was good.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Gastrodia elata is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, enters the pericardium meridian of the liver, and has the functions of calming wind and stopping spasm, calming liver yang, expelling wind and dredging collaterals. This taste is sweet and smooth, and it is specialized in entering the liver meridian, which has the function of calming wind and stopping spasm. It is a commonly used medicine for treating liver wind movement. Because it is good at treating all wind diseases, especially dizziness, it can be used for a variety of dizziness symptoms.

The function of gastrodia elata is generally considered as a "medicine for treating fengshen". In fact, gastrodia elata is a top-grade tonic besides expelling wind and removing arthralgia. As early as in the Classic, it has been listed as a "top grade" medicinal material, which is considered to be "pungent and warm, non-toxic, and can benefit qi and nourish yin, strengthen the body, make people strengthen the body and prolong life" after long-term use. "Kaibao Materia Medica" says that it "benefits the waist and knees, strengthens the energy, and benefits the true qi after taking it for a long time, so that intellectuals can keep fit for many years". Daming Materia Medica says that it "helps the yang, makes up for five strains and seven injuries, opens blood vessels and enlightens people". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "it is a pity to tonify medicine, gastrodia elata is the first, and it is used by the world to cure wind". The Medication Method states that it has four functions: treating adult wind-heat headache; Children with epilepsy and wind shock; The wind is insensitive; Wind-hot language is no good. "It can be seen that Gastrodia elata not only cures the wind, but also has a nourishing effect that other drugs can't do. Pharmacological research shows that gastrodia elata contains gastrodin, gastrodia elata polysaccharide, vanillin, alkaloids and so on. Gastrodia elata polysaccharide can increase the immune function of the body, and Gastrodia elata injection can improve the nutritional blood flow of myocardium and brain and improve the hypoxia tolerance of experimental animals. In addition, it also has sedative, analgesic, anticonvulsant, lipid-lowering and antihypertensive effects. Cooking porridge and taking enhanced gastrodia elata is an ideal porridge therapy for anti-aging and anti-aging