天麻为常用中药,原名“赤箭”,因茎似箭竿,赤色,端有花叶,远看如箭有羽而得名。始载于《神农本草经》,列为上品。天麻之名见于宋代《开宝本草》;《本经》称“离母”、“鬼督邮”;《吴普本草》称 Gastrodia is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, formerly known as “Red arrow”, because the stems resemble arrows, red, with a mosaic, from a distance to see if the arrow has its name. It was included in the “Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing” and was listed as a top grade. The name of Gastrodia was found in the Song Dynasty “Kai Bao Materia Medica”; “Ben Jing” said “from the mother”, “Ghost Supervisor Post”; “Wu Pu Materia Medica,” said