Can dried Gastrodia elata be eaten raw? A guide to the correct ways to eat it

Dried Gastrodia elata can be eaten raw, but it is not recommended to eat it raw, because the raw taste is not very good; it is best to put Gastrodia elata into soup, and it should not be eaten too much at one time.

1. Functions of Gastrodia elata

1. Liver wind stirring internally, convulsions and seizures: this product mainly enters the liver meridian, has the function of calming wind and stopping spasms, and is sweet in taste and moist in nature, with a mild medicinal property. Therefore, it can be used to treat liver wind stirring internally and convulsions and seizures caused by various factors, and regardless of cold, heat, deficiency or excess, it can be used in combination with other medicines.

2. Dizziness, headache: this product both calms liver wind and pacifies liver yang, and is an important medicine for treating dizziness and headache. Regardless of deficiency syndrome or excess syndrome, it can be used with different combinations.

3. Numbness of the limbs, inability to move the hands and feet, rheumatic arthralgia: this product can also dispel external wind, unblock the meridians, and relieve pain. It is used to treat inability to move the hands and feet after stroke, pain in the tendons and bones; wind arthralgia in women, inability to move the hands and feet; rheumatic arthralgia, unfavorable flexion and extension of the joints, etc.

2. How to eat Gastrodia elata?

1. Fresh Gastrodia elata and goat liver porridge

150 grams of fresh Gastrodia elata, 60 grams of goat liver, 100 grams of rice. Wash the fresh Gastrodia elata with water to remove sand and soil, remove both ends and the skin, cut into cubes, blanch in boiling water, and place in cold water; cook the goat liver in clear water and cut into square cubes, grind the rice into fine powder for later use; add 2000 grams of clear water to a pot. Mix the rice flour with cold water into a paste, add it after the water boils, then add the fresh Gastrodia elata, goat liver cubes, and refined salt, and cook into porridge before eating.

2. Fresh Gastrodia elata tea

20 grams of fresh Gastrodia elata slices, 2 grams of white chrysanthemum, 3 grams of goji berries, 2 jujubes. Wash the fresh Gastrodia elata, remove the stem base, cut into thin slices, and soak together with dried white chrysanthemum, dried goji berries and jujubes in 80°C boiled water for 10 minutes before drinking.

3. Stir-fried fresh Gastrodia elata slices

Ingredients: 150 grams of fresh Gastrodia elata, 50 grams of carrot, 50 grams of green pepper pieces. Method: wash and peel the fresh Gastrodia elata and slice it, slice the carrot, and cut the green pepper into pieces for later use. Put an appropriate amount of oil in a pot, and after it is hot, add the above 3 ingredients and stir-fry until cooked, then add refined salt and monosodium glutamate and it is ready to eat.