Peeled ginkgo seeds are commercial ginkgo, commonly known as ginkgo. In order to ensure its safe storage and transportation, it should be moderately dry. Drying methods are mostly sun drying or shade drying, but shade drying is the best.

By drying in the sun, when the ginkgo seed skin is silvery white and the water content reaches about 40%, it can be put away and stored in bags. When drying, it is forbidden to use an oven or drying room for drying, and do not expose yourself to the sun for a long time.

Edible taboo

Ginkgo biloba is very nutritious, containing ginkgolic acid, ginkgolic acid, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and other trace elements and vitamins beneficial to human body. But also has sweet and soft taste, excellent taste and good health care function. But ginkgo biloba also has side effects.

Ginkgo biloba is slightly toxic. Besides starch, protein and fat, it also contains hydrocyanic acid. Generally speaking, green embryos are the most toxic. Ginkgo biloba, as a dried fruit, must be cooked or candied. Used as medicine, it has a strong harvesting effect when cooked; Raw food has a strong detoxification and insecticidal effect.

But don't eat too much raw food. According to modern medical research, there is a substance similar to eagle claw alkali in ginkgo biloba. Injecting its solution into experimental animals, animals may have convulsions and finally die of bulbar palsy. The medical profession believes that children can be poisoned by eating 7 ~ 15 tablets raw, and the toxicity will be reduced after frying, but it is not advisable to eat too much at a time.

It is advisable for everyone to eat 15-30 pieces of cooked food, and there is no harm in eating more; Raw 6- 10 capsules is suitable. Children under 5 years old should be forbidden to eat ginkgo. It is generally best not to take it for a long time.

Ginkgo poisoning must first have a history of eating ginkgo, and its incubation period may be several hours to more than ten hours. Ginkgo biloba has certain toxicity, especially green embryo.

The main symptoms are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and cyanosis. In addition, there are obvious manifestations of central nervous system damage: headache, extreme fear, screaming, slight sound and stimulation can all cause convulsions, loss of consciousness or coma. In severe cases, it can lead to respiratory paralysis and death, and the symptoms develop rapidly, so it is necessary to go to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Take egg white orally urgently, or take it with 30 grams of white husk or 60 grams of licorice. Therefore, adults should not eat more, and children under 5 years old should not eat ginkgo.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ginkgo biloba