How much does wild Gastrodia elata cost per jin, and what are its effects?
Gastrodia elata is a perennial saprophytic orchid herbaceous plant; the whole plant has no green leaves and contains no chlorophyll. In traditional Chinese medicine it is a precious medicinal herb that can be used to treat tetanus, neurasthenia, headache and dizziness and other conditions. In the ancient medical books Shennong Bencao Jing and Bencao Gangmu, there are records that Gastrodia elata can “eliminate a hundred diseases and prolong life”. So how much does wild Gastrodia elata cost per jin? And specifically what effects does it have?
1. The price of wild Gastrodia elata
Gastrodia elata is a very precious medicinal herb. Due to huge market demand, Gastrodia elata is also cultivated artificially, but we all know that because of the influence of weather and growing environment, the medicinal value of wild Gastrodia elata is much higher than that of artificially cultivated ones, and likewise the price of wild Gastrodia elata is higher than that of artificially cultivated Gastrodia elata. Wild Gastrodia elata is fairly widely distributed in our country; the central, southern and northeastern regions basically all have wild Gastrodia elata, among which the products from western Guizhou, southern Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan and the Changbai Mountain region of the Northeast are famous genuine regional medicinal materials, and their quality is especially good.
When purchased, wild Gastrodia elata is generally divided into four grades according to its size, fleshiness and quality: premium grade, first grade, second grade and third grade. The price gap between different grades of Gastrodia elata is very large. The retail price of premium-grade wild Gastrodia elata is generally 800 yuan/kg, the retail price of first-grade wild Gastrodia elata is generally 600 yuan/kg, the retail price of second-grade wild Gastrodia elata is generally 430 yuan/kg, while the retail price of third-grade wild Gastrodia elata is relatively lower at 260 yuan/kg. Because the state does not have many regulations on the retail price and wholesale price of wild medicinal materials, the prices at major pharmacies and medicinal material wholesale markets differ. The specific price should be based on the local market price; the prices here are only for everyone's reference.
2. The effects of Gastrodia elata
The Gastrodia genus is, in traditional Chinese medicine, a good medicine that can be used to treat many diseases, and wild Gastrodia elata is among them a famous genuine regional medicinal material, whose quality is relatively the best. Its effects mainly include the following:
1. Sedative effect: some medical institutions use synthetic gastrodin (gastrodia glycoside) to treat patients with neurasthenia and neurasthenia syndrome. It can also inhibit central excitation caused by caffeine, and can also enhance the sleep-time effect of pentobarbital sodium.
2. Analgesic effect: it has a relatively good analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, vascular neurogenic headache, cerebrovascular disease headache, toxic polyneuritis and so on.
3. Anticonvulsant effect: Gastrodia elata has a certain curative effect on facial nerve twitching, numbness of the limbs, hemiplegia, epilepsy and so on, and also has the effect of relieving smooth muscle spasm and angina pectoris and so on.
4. Blood pressure-lowering effect: Gastrodia elata can treat high blood pressure, and also increases the body's peripheral and coronary blood flow, and has a certain protective effect on the heart.
5. Effect of improving eyesight and boosting intelligence: Gastrodia elata also has the effect of improving eyesight and significantly enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has a very good protective and regulating effect on the brain nerves, and has the effect of enhancing the resolving power of the optic nerves.
Although wild Gastrodia elata has many effects, on the market there is at least wild Gastrodia elata that has been aged for more than 1 year, whose medicinal properties have basically all volatilized away. In addition, there are unscrupulous merchants who first extract the medicinal properties of Gastrodia elata and then sell the leftover Gastrodia elata shells. So when buying Gastrodia elata you need to carefully distinguish it.
The above is some knowledge about Gastrodia elata. Although Gastrodia elata has many curative effects, after all, every medicine has some toxicity, so everyone should still consume Gastrodia elata according to the doctor's advice, and not consume Gastrodia elata casually on their own.