Gastrodia elata rhizoma gastrodiae root rhizome Gastrodia elata Bl traditional chinese medicine Tian ma

Product Description

Gastrodia elata Bl/Tall Gastrodia Tuber

Chinese name: Tian ma

Used part:  tuber or bulb

Property:  slight odour; sweet flavour,mild

Act on liver channel.

Main function:

1. To remove heat and resolve phlegm,

2. To ease the mind, and to reduce nodulation.  

3. Nourish the lung, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

4. Clear away heat, disperse stagnation and relieve carbuncles.

Typical prescription:

Name of the prescription:TIan ma san (Gastrodia elata powder mix to other herb's powder)

Herbs and quantity:30g/each herb:Gastrodia elata tuber;Bungarus Parvus;sophora fruit;root of Forbes Notopterygium; Divaricate Saposhniovia Root;Vitex trifolia L.fruits;Dictamnus dasycarpus bark;Silkworm Excrement;dry unmature fruits;radix clematidis;Liquoric Root

Treat for:opening of sweat pores caused by deficiency,whole body swelling and pain like needle hurt.

Chemical constituents:

p-hydroxymethylphenyl-β-D-glucopyranoside, gasTCMLIBodioside, bis-(4-hydroxybenzyl)ether-mono-β-D-glucoyranoside, p-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, 4-hydroxybenzyl methylether, 4-(4'-hydroxybenzyloxy)-benzyl methyl ether, bis(4-hydroxybenzyl)ether

Plant description:

Gastrodia elata Blume Mus. Bot. 
 tian ma
Gastrodia elata f. alba S. Chow; G. elata f. flavida S. Chow; G. elata f. glauca S. Chow; G. elata var. gracilisPampanini; G. elata f. pilifera Tuyama; G. elata f. viridis (Makino) Makino; G. elata var. viridis (Makino) Makino; G. mairei Schlechter; G. viridis Makino.
Plants 30-100 cm, rarely to 200 cm tall. Rhizomes usually ellipsoid, 8-12 cm, stout, 3-5(-7) cm in diam., sometimes larger, fleshy, densely noded, with triangular or broadly ovate scales at nodes.

Peduncle orange, yellow, grayish brown, or greenish, 25-80(-150) cm, with several membranous sheaths toward base; rachis 5-30(-50) cm, subdensely to densely 20-50-flowered; floral bracts oblong-lanceolate, 10-16 mm, often exceeding ovary, membranous, apex acuminate. Flowers suberect, resupinate, opening weakly, orange, pale yellow, bluish green, or yellowish white; pedicel and ovary 7-12 mm.

Perianth tube urceolate, 8-10 × 5-7 mm, with a deep sinus between lateral sepals, base inflated, outer surface smooth; free portion of sepals ovate-triangular, 3-5 mm, apex obtuse; free portion of petals suboblong, smaller than sepal lobes, apex acute; lip obscurely 3-lobed, oblong-ovoid, 6-7 × 3-4 mm, glabrous, base clawed, apical margin irregularly fimbriate; claw with a pair of gibbous foldings; disk papillose, with a pair of fleshy reniform calli. Column 5-7 mm; column foot short. Capsule obovoid-ellipsoid, 14-18 × 8-9 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Jul. 

Sparse forests, open places in forests, forest margins, thicket margins; 400-3200 m. Anhui, N Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bhutan, NE India, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Russia (Far East)].

This species is widely cultivated for its tubers (tianma) that are used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of convulsive disorders such as epilepsy.This species is widely cultivated for its tubers (tianma) that are used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of convulsive disorders such as epilepsy.