Edible value
Ginkgo biloba fruit is commonly known as the white fruit, which consists of fleshy outer testa, bony middle testa, membranous inner testa, seed kernel composition. White fruit nourishes and prolongs life, and ginkgo was listed as a royal tribute in the Song Dynasty. Japan has the habit of consuming white fruit daily. Westerners must have white fruit at Christmas. As far as the way of consumption is concerned, ginkgo is mainly fried, roasted, boiled, served with vegetables, pastries, preserves, canned food, beverages and alcohol. It has the effect of expectorant, cough, moistening the lungs and fixing the wheezing, but it can cause poisoning after eating in large quantities.
White fruit contains hydrocyanic acid toxin, toxicity is very strong, the toxicity is reduced after heat, so raw food is more likely to be poisoned. General poisoning dose of 10 ~ 50, poisoning symptoms occur in 1 ~ 12 hours after eating white fruit. In order to prevent white fruit poisoning, it is not advisable to eat more should not eat raw white fruit.
Ginkgo nuts health care role. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "cooked food warm lungs, beneficial to the qi, set wheezing and coughing, reduce stools, stopping the white turbidity; raw food to reduce phlegm, disinfection and insecticide". Modern science has proved that: ginkgo seed kernel has the role of anti-E. coli, diphtheria bacillus, staphylococcus, tuberculosis bacillus, streptococcus. Chinese medicine to ginkgo seed kernel treatment of bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, leucorrhea, gonorrhea, spermatorrhea and other diseases. Ginkgo seed kernel also has the role of eliminating spots and wrinkles, treatment of sores, ringworm. Cough phlegm sparse patients, with 30 grams of ginkgo seed kernel, 15 grams of rock sugar decoction water service, 2 times a day, half a month can be cured; children's enuresis, with ginkgo seed kernel 5 simmering, take the kernel at bedtime every night, half a month can be effective.
Sex and flavor: flat, sweet, bitter and astringent flavor, with a small poison; into the lung, kidney meridian.
Effects and Indications: astringent lung qi, asthma and coughing, stopping the turbidity of the belt, reducing stool, disinfecting and killing insects. It can be used to treat asthma, phlegm, coughing, dreaming, leucorrhea, leucorrhea, pediatric diarrhea, worms, intestinal wind, gonorrhea, frequent urination, as well as scabies, varicose sores, leucoma wind and other diseases.
Nutritional composition: per 100 grams containing 6.4 grams of protein, 2.4 grams of fat, 36 grams of carbohydrates, 1.2 grams of crude fiber, 52 grams of sucrose, reducing sugar 1.1, 10 mg of calcium, 218 mg of phosphorus, 1 mg of iron, 320 micrograms of carotenoids, 50 micrograms of riboflavin, as well as albuterol, albuterol, albuterol, albuterol, and many other ingredients.
Therapeutic effects
1. Antibacterial and bactericidal: white fruit contains albino acid, albino phenol, experiments have proved that there are bacteriostatic and bactericidal effect, can be used for the treatment of respiratory tract infectious diseases. Fructus alba water infusion has different degrees of inhibition of various fungi, can stop itching and cure ringworm.
2. Dispel cough: white fruit taste sweet and bitter, with astringent lung qi, set the efficacy of wheezing and coughing, for lung disease and cough, the elderly frail body asthma and various asthma phlegm, have auxiliary therapeutic effect.
3, anti-flooding inhibition of worms: white fruits contained in the outer testa of white fruit acid and white fruit phenol, etc., has the role of anti-tuberculosis mycobacteria. White fruit with oil immersion on tubercle bacillus has a strong inhibitory effect, with lettuce oil immersion in fresh fruit, to improve the symptoms of tuberculosis caused by fever, night sweats, coughing and hemoptysis, loss of appetite and other symptoms have a certain effect. Therefore, it can be used to treat tuberculosis.
4. Stop the tape turbidity, shrink stool: modern medical research found that obscene fruits have contraction of the bladder sphincter. For the pediatric enuresis, gas deficiency urinary frequency, bring down the white turbidity, spermatorrhea, etc., there is an auxiliary therapeutic effect.
5. Reduce serum cholesterol, expand coronary arteries: ginkgo biloba contains mangiferolic acid, bilobalamin, isobalamin, sterols, etc., in recent years for the treatment of hypertension and coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, cerebral vasospasm, serum cholesterol and other high diseases have a certain effect.
Consumption taboos
Ginkgo seed kernels, especially the embryo and cotyledons contain a small amount of ginkgolic acid, ginkgol and ginkgol and other toxic substances, raw or cooked food in excess will cause poisoning. Poisoning varies from person to person, the symptoms of poisoning light manifested as general discomfort, drowsiness, poisoning heavy manifested as vomiting, cramps, lips bruises, nausea, respiratory difficulties. The mildly poisoned can recover by drinking strong tea or coffee and resting in bed, while the severely poisoned should be sent to the hospital for treatment. In order to safely consume ginkgo nuts, the embryo and cotyledons should be removed, boiled in water first, poured off the water and the inner seed coat, and then boiled with water or used for cooking. In addition, has sprouted ginkgo seed kernels can not be eaten, food ginkgo seed kernels should not eat fish at the same time.