As a medicinal herb, gastrodia can be cooked with food, improving the taste and achieving the purpose of treating diseases. The more common way to eat gastrodia is to make gastrodia meat slice soup, gastrodia stewed chicken, gastrodia stewed turtle, stewed pigeon can be. It can also be simmered by cutting gastrodia into thin slices and porridge, and making gastrodia porridge can also play a role in improving the meridians of the human body and adjusting the purpose of internal organs, and the oral effect of tianma soaking water every day is also good. Individuals think that gastrodia for blood pressure adjustment, as well as for the appearance of internal wind in the human body, and the appearance of dizziness, headache, have a good adjustment effect, especially suitable for the elderly to prevent Alzheimer's disease, improve memory, anti-aging effect are very good.
A month ago, a 70-year-old elderly male patient came to the clinic, claiming dizziness, headaches, and blurred vision. Just a few days before the visit, the patient appeared dizzy for no reason, blurred vision, each time up to ten minutes or so, can only stop the book and newspaper in hand, after rest can be relieved, and according to the accompanying old lady, the patient began to have memory loss performance. After intermittent questioning, it was learned that the patient's history of hypertension has been more than 10 years, and he usually administers nifedipine regularly, and blood pressure control is acceptable.
There is a history of smoking for more than 40 years, about 1 sachet per day, a small amount of alcohol, and a generally normal diet. Physical examination of patients: blood pressure 148/85 mmHg, random fingertip blood glucose 8.9 mmol/l (meals have been eaten).
The initial diagnosis believes that some of the male patients have insufficient cerebral blood supply, the condition is not serious, and it is enough to take medication. Here I prescribed him three kinds of drugs: acetyl gastrodin tablets, ginkgo ketone ester drop pills, and blood-nourishing and calming granules, and told him to take them according to the doctor's instructions and review them on time.
After that, the follow-up patient learned that the male patient insisted on taking the drug three times a day, two acetyl gastrodin tablets (100mg) each time, eight pills (40mg) of ginkgo ketone ester drops, and a bag of blood-nourishing and calming granules (3g). About ten days later, the old couple came to the hospital for follow-up consultation. The results of the examination were that the male patient's condition did improve.
Gastrodia
Gastrodia is a chinese medicine commonly used in our Traditional Chinese Medicine, gastrodia is a dried tuber of the orchid family tianma. Chinese medicine believes that tianma belongs to the flat liver and wind medicine, the rest of the taste is slightly spicy, sweet, flat, tianma into the liver meridian, has the effect of calming the liver circulation, can be used to treat liver wind internal movements, seizure convulsions and tetanus and other symptoms, especially vertigo, headache and other symptoms caused by hyperactivity of the liver and yang, wind fever paralysis and limb numbness.