Mention of gastrodia everyone is not unfamiliar, as a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, gastrodia can dispel the wind and network, often people use gastrodia to brew wine to take, in the end how big is the effect of gastrodia bubble wine? Xiaobian today to analyze with you, what is the role of tianma, and tianma bubble wine those things.
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Medicinal properties of gastrodia
Which gastrodia is suitable for medicine?
Gastrodia, a dried tuber of the orchid family gastrodia, can be dug in spring and winter, washed and scraped off the outer skin, steamed through, and dried. The top of the high-quality gastrodia has red stem residue, resembling a parrot's mouth, and a circular navel-like scar on the bottom end, with annular horizontal stripes on the surface. Before the winter solstice, the digging is called "winter hemp"; the digging before the summer is called "spring hemp". Spring hemp is light in texture, the characteristics are not obvious, the quality is poor, and it is not suitable for medicine. The flesh of winter hemp is thick, with obvious characteristics, good quality and good medicinal effect.
The efficacy of gastrodia
Gastrodia taste sweet, flat sex, return to the liver meridian. It has the effect of relieving wind and stopping spasms, calming liver and yang, and dispelling wind and communication. Indications for the treatment of liver wind internal movement, convulsions, dizziness, headache, limb numbness, hand and foot failure, rheumatism and paralysis pain.
"Medicine Law Elephant" Yun: "Cure the headache of wind fever in adults; the panic of children's wind and epilepsy; the paralysis of the winds is not kind; the wind and heat language is not successful." "Materia Medica" Yun: "The main head wind, headache, dizziness and weakness, epilepsy and spasms, limb cramps, language is not smooth, all strokes, wind phlegm" and so on.
Dosage of gastrodia: decoction for internal use, 3-10 g; powdered powder, 1-1.5 g.
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Clinical use of gastrodia
Treatment of dizziness
Gastrodia cures vertigo of hyperactivity in the liver and yang, which can be compatible with hook vine, stone cassia, etc.; such as vertigo caused by wind phlegm, it can be used with half summer, white art, poria and so on.
Treatment of motor convulsions
Gastrodia is often used with hook vines and whole scorpions for people with high heat and convulsions. Tianma breathing wind is fixed, dizziness and dark eyes, headache, limb numbness, half-body failure, language jerkiness, children's seizures and so on.
Treatment of headache limb numbness
Gastrodia with Sichuan root and other treatment of headaches, with whole scorpion, frankincense and other treatment of paralysis pain. In addition, for symptoms such as limb numbness and hand and foot failure, it is often combined with angelica, cow knee and so on.
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Contraindications to the use of gastrodia
"Compendium of Materia Medica" cloud: "Long serve Tianma, all over the body to emit red dan", "Benjing Fengyuan" cloud: "Although the gastropodism is not dry, after all, the wind agent, if the blood is nothing, if the blood is nothing, the fire headache, dry mouth and closed stool, can not be used in vain." ”
In the "Treatise on the Burning of the Lei Gong Cannon", it is said, "The stems under the Royal Wind Meadow are spotted, and the leaves are white and green. Make the royal wind grass root to start a business, do not make tianma. If the two pieces are used together, it will make people suffer from intestinal knots. "This means that gastrodia should not be taken with the root of the royal wind herb, otherwise there will be a risk of intestinal knots." Tianma is also known as Dingfeng grass, and the royal wind grass root, from its name, can know that there is an effect of the royal wind, one dingfeng, one royal wind, the effect of the two kinds of Chinese medicine is opposite, so it can not be used together.
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Is tianma bubble wine useful?
According to the main effect of gastrodia, gastrodia can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce the resistance of cerebral blood vessels, slightly constrict cerebral blood vessels, can reduce blood pressure, slow down the heart rhythm, and play a protective role in myocardial ischemia.
Therefore, tianma bubble wine is only the use of single-flavor gastrodia, but the treatment and prevention of diseases generally requires the use of several traditional Chinese medicines. Gastrodia bubble wine does not play a decisive role in cerebrovascular disease, and most people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are not suitable for regular drinking, so is gastropod wine useful in the end? It can only be said that when you do not understand the constitution and diseases, taking tianma wine cannot play a big role, and even damage the body.
Brewing wine has a great knowledge: what wine to use, how many degrees of wine to use, what container to use, how long is the brewed medicinal wine suitable for taking, and how much is appropriate to take each time? Who is not suitable for taking it? Pay too much attention, such as poor mastery, not only can not play its due role, and may harm the body.
Gastrodia is often taken as a "tonic". Dizziness at first sight, regardless of physical weakness, qi and blood boom and bust, some people will use gastrodia in vain, the result may appear dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, skin papules with itching, etc., individual will appear facial or whole body puffiness, and even hair loss. Children, pregnant women, and people with fever are not suitable for taking gastrodia, and those with serious chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, and kidney disease need to use gastrodia with caution.
Note: The Chinese medicine prescriptions mentioned in this article should be taken under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be taken blindly.