The fleshy skin outside the white fruit is poisonous.

The best thing to do is not to use your hands to directly contact the ginkgo biloba fruit on the ground, so as not to be poisoned. According to reports, the ginkgo biloba fruit outside a layer of pulp-like for the outer seed coat, the shell for the inner seed coat, the innermost for the seed kernel, and can be eaten is the innermost seed kernel. The outer seed coat contains ginkgo biloba toxin, when the fruit falls when the pulp rupture, if direct contact with the hands, the toxic ingredients may come into contact with the skin, causing allergic dermatitis.

White fruit contains hydrocyanic acid toxin, toxicity is very strong, the toxicity of heat reduces, 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, this disease is mostly seen in children.

The poisonous components of the white fruit is soluble in water, after heating to reduce the toxicity, so before eating can be soaked in water for more than 1 hour, and then heated and cooked, can greatly improve the safety of eating white fruit, white fruit poisoning has a certain incubation period, generally 1 to 12 hours, the symptoms of nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, headache, restlessness, convulsions, coma, pupil dilatation, respiratory distress, pulmonary edema, cardiac failure. , heart failure, etc.

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The efficacy of white fruit

1, white fruit helps antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Water infusion of white fruit in vitro on the corynebacterium, Audu ounce of small bacillus, astrocytic Nu caninum, and other seven kinds of skin fungi show inhibition of the bacterial effect. The antimicrobial power of white fruit pulp was stronger than that of the peel.

2, white fruit helps expectorant

White fruit extract can be good respiratory tract phenol red excretion increased, seems to have expectorant effect.

3, white fruit to help reduce blood pressure

White fruit in the white fruit diphenol has a transient antihypertensive effect, white fruit diphenol on the initiation of carcinogenesis has a strong inhibitory effect, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and other effects. But white fruit diphenol, is a toxic component, is absorbed by the gastrointestinal mucosa, will stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, resulting in neurotoxicity, serious inhibition of heartbeat, respiratory center, manifested as toxic encephalitis, severe cases cause death, should not be overconsumed.

4, white fruit helps anti-aging

White fruit has the effect of nourishing the yin and skin, can make a person's skin rosy, mental glow, prolong life.

5, white fruit helps to enhance memory

White fruit kernel in the flavonoid glycosides, bitter endolipids on cerebral thrombosis, Alzheimer's disease, hypertension, hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, cerebral hypoplasia, and other diseases also has a special preventive and therapeutic effect.

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