Hanyu Pinyin: bai guo
English name: Ginkgo Seed
Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Ginkgo biloba L.
Effective classification: cough suppressant.
Category: Ginkgoaceae.
Alias: Duck's Foot, Spirit Eye, Buddha's Nail, Buddha's Finger Citrus.
Taste: sweet; bitter; astringent; flat; slightly toxic.
Categorized as: lung meridian; kidney meridian.
Functions: Astringing the lungs to stabilize asthma; stopping the band and shrinking urine.
Indications: asthma, phlegm and coughing; leucorrhoea; leucorrhea; spermatorrhea; frequent urination; anonymous swelling; 皶-nose; ringworm.
Use and dosage: internal: decoction, 3-9g; or pounded juice. External use: appropriate amount, pounded compress; or sliced and applied.
Ecology: Born in natural forests with acidic soil and good drainage at an altitude of 500-1000m.
Resource Distribution: It is cultivated from Shenyang in the north to Guangzhou in the south, from East China in the east to Guizhou and Yunnan in the southwest.
Medicinal source: the seeds of Ginkgo biloba, family Ginkgoaceae.
Harvesting and storage: harvested at the end of autumn when the seeds are ripe, remove the fleshy exocarp, wash, dry, and break the seed kernel when used.
Concoction method:
1, white fruit kernel: pick impurities, remove the hard shell.
2, cooked white fruit: take the clean picking white fruit, steamed, fried or simmered, remove the shell [2].
White fruit is nutritious senior tonic, containing crude protein, crude fat, reducing sugar, nucleoprotein, minerals, crude fiber and a variety of vitamins and other ingredients. According to the scientific conclusion: each 100g of fresh white fruit contains protein 13.2g, carbohydrate 72.6g, fat 1.3g, and contains vitamin C, riboflavin, carotene, and calcium, phosphorus, iron, selenium, potassium, magnesium and other trace elements, 8 kinds of amino acids, has a very high food value, medicinal value, health care value, the human health has a magical effect.
White fruit kernels contain a variety of nutrients, in addition to starch, protein, fat, sugar, but also contains
White fruit with a variety of dishes (6) vitamin C, riboflavin, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium and other trace elements, as well as ginkgolic acid, white fruit phenol, five-carbon polysaccharides, lipids sterols and other components. It has the therapeutic effect and medical effect of benefiting lung qi, treating cough and asthma, stopping band worms, narrowing stools, leveling chafing, protecting blood vessels, and increasing blood flow. According to modern medical research, ginkgo also has a smooth blood vessels, improve brain function, delay the aging of the elderly brain, enhance memory capacity, treatment of Alzheimer's disease and cerebral blood supply deficiencies and other effects of ginkgo anti-aging instincts. The scientific influence in Germany and France is great. In addition to this, ginkgo can protect the liver, reduce cardiac arrhythmia, prevent fatal bronchoconstriction in allergic reactions, and can also be applied to deal with asthma, transplant rejection, myocardial infarction, stroke, organ protection and dialysis.
Regular consumption of white fruit, can nourish the yin and anti-aging, dilate the microvessels, promote blood circulation, so that people's skin, facial redness, mental health, prolonging life, is suitable for both young and old health food and hospitality to guests on the guest of honor of the special delicacies. Seed kernel in the flavonoid glycosides, bitter fat on cerebral thrombosis, Alzheimer's disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, cerebral hypoplasia and other diseases also has a special preventive and therapeutic effect.
The efficacy and role of white fruit is naturally inseparable from the treatment of disease, white fruit in the medical role can treat tuberculosis. In addition, the nutritional value of white fruit is very high oh! White fruit can nourish the yin and anti-aging, so that people's skin, facial redness. 1.. Treatment of asthma, phlegm cough, leucorrhea, white turbidity, spermatorrhea, gonorrhea, frequent urination. ①. Astringent asthma, reduce the amount of phlegm: suitable for coughing and asthma, phlegm, whether cold, hot can be. ②. Astringency, stopping the belt, removing dampness: used to treat leucorrhea. Whether the lower yuan deficiency, leucorrhea thin, or damp-heat injection, leucorrhea yellow turbidity, with the symptoms of the combination, can be used. ③. Dispelling phlegm and stabilizing asthma: used in the treatment of cough and phlegm, it can eliminate phlegm and stabilize asthma. ④. Astringent and removing dampness: it can be used to treat reddish-white leucorrhea, whitish turbidity in urine, frequent urination and enuresis. 2, the treatment of tuberculosis Method: on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, will be half green with yellow ginkgo (select the appearance of the large particles without damage) picked, without washing, and do not remove the handle, then immersed in lettuce oil, soaked full of 100 days can be used. Daily morning, noon and night each served 1 (pediatric discretionary), before meals, depending on the condition of the service for 1 to 3 months. Consumption of white fruit, health and longevity, ginkgo in the Song Dynasty was listed as a royal tribute. Japanese people have the habit of daily consumption of white fruit. Westerners must have white fruit at Christmas. As far as the way of consumption is concerned, ginkgo is mainly fried, roasted, boiled, with vegetables, pastries, preserves, canned food, drinks and alcohol.