Detailed Product Description

Chinese Traditional Herb

1. Pharmaceutical name:Rhizoma Gastrodiae Elatae.

2. Latin botanical name:Gastrodia elata Bl.

3.Common Name:Gastrodia Tuber.

4.Channels (meridians) entered:Liver.

5.Actions & Indications:

  1). Calming the internal wind and relieving convulsion and spasm. For suppressing symptoms of liver-wind, no matter if cold type or heat type.
  2). Calming the liver and suppressing liver yang ascending . For such symptoms as vertigo and headache.
  3). Removing obstruction in the channels to relieve pain. For arthralgia due to the wind, cold and dampness, or for numbness and paralysis caused by liver and shenxu (kidney deficient)
  4). For neurasthenia and insomnia

6.Medical Function:

  1). Effect on the CNS: sedation, anti-seizure, painkilling effect.
  2). Effect on heart and blood vessels: protects the heart muscle from lacking circulation, improves blood flow in the coronary artery,
  3). Improves blood flow to the brain,
  4). mitigate the effect of adrenalin on blood vessel constriction, lower blood pressure.
  5). Effect on tolerance of lack of oxygen.
  6). Improve the immune system.
  7). Other effects: increase the skin temperature; increase the expansion and contraction ability of the smooth muscle of the intestine; improve the secretion of the bile in the gall bladder (vanillyl alcohol); slow down breathing; inhibits 5-HT, PGE2;
  8). Vanilline can be absorbed in the small intestine rapidly and shows up in the liver and the brain, especially the cerebrum, and the medication quickly permeates the blood-brain barrier. Vanilline is excreted through the urine within 10-12 hours.
  9). Toxicity: Relatively safe.