Can eating Gastrodia elata lower blood pressure?

Hypertension is a disease with serious consequences. It is like a time bomb in people's lives that may explode at any time and pose a great threat to the body. Therefore, it is very important to control blood pressure in time and lower it to a reasonable range. Many people like to take Chinese medicine to lower blood pressure. Let's see if eating Gastrodia elata can lower blood pressure? I hope everyone can understand it.

Gastrodia elata is a commonly used and relatively precious Chinese medicine. Everyone knows that Gastrodia elata is mostly used for headaches, dizziness, and limb numbness. In fact, Gastrodia elata is also a very good blood pressure lowering medicine.

How to eat Gastrodia elata to lower blood pressure

1. Grind Gastrodia elata into fine powder and take it with warm water, 1 gram to 1.5 grams each time.

2. To stew , cut the Gastrodia elata into thin slices, stew it alone or with other nourishing foods in a covered container.

3. Add Gastrodia elata and pig brain into water and cook into porridge. 10g Gastrodia elata, 1 pig brain, 250g polished rice. Wash a pig brain, put it into a casserole together with 10 grams of Gastrodia elata, then put in 100 grams of polished rice and add water to cook porridge until the porridge and the brain are cooked. You can take warm porridge once every morning.

4. Gastrodia elata can treat dizziness and headaches, but Gastrodia elata is not effective for all dizziness and headaches. Because there are many other reasons that can cause dizziness and headaches. For example, anemia, malnutrition of the brain, or blood stasis in the body. To treat dizziness and headache caused by these factors, we must correct anemia and remove phlegm and blood stasis. Since Gastrodia elata does not have the effect of replenishing blood or removing phlegm and blood stasis, it cannot be used alone for treatment. It must be used in combination with blood-replenishing, phlegm-removing and blood stasis-removing drugs to cure both the symptoms and the root cause, and dizziness and headache can be cured.

Gastrodia elata is very beneficial to the human brain and nervous system because it can protect and regulate the brain and enhance the resolution ability of the optic nerve. At present, some high-altitude flight personnel have adopted Gastrodia elata as health food or brain health medicine. In Japan, there are even cases of using Gastrodia elata injection to treat Alzheimer's disease, and the effect has been recognized.