Research progress on Gastrodia elata prevention and treatment neuropsychiatric diseases / 中草药

Gastrodia elata is a kind of precious Chinese materia medica, which showed good effect in the treatment of headache, improve learning and memory, antidepressant, and other neuropharmacology effects. In this paper, the neuropharmacology effects and corresponding chemical constituents of G. elata in the last ten years were summarized and sorted by referring the literature of CNKI and PubMed, as well as inquired the development of G. elata related drugs and health care products in the official website of the Chinese Food and Drug Administration, which provides reference to develop nervous and mental diseases products of G. elata.