Roadside tree ginkgo fruit can not eat. Ginkgo trees growing on the side of the road, near the road, absorbing car exhaust, causing some pollution to the ginkgo leaves and fruits, plants in the green belt may also contain pesticides, so do not blindly pick and take.

Because the ginkgo biloba contains traces of hydrocyanic acid, which is a harmful component of the body, especially the green germ part of the ginkgo biloba has the highest content of toxins, overdose will appear vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, and even respiratory difficulties and other toxic phenomena, so "ginkgo biloba fruit can not be eaten raw, and even less can not be eaten more".

Expanded information:

Ginkgo biloba is all treasure, fruit, leaves have good medicinal value, ginkgo biloba has a blood stasis, pain, convergence of the lungs and asthma, Ginkgo biloba has the efficacy of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing collaterals and relieving pain, astringing the lungs and calming asthma, resolving turbidity and lowering lipids, and it has preventive and therapeutic effects on cardiovascular diseases, senile renal deficiency, and slowing down aging. Ginkgo biloba fruit is flat, sweet, toxic, expectorant, asthma, stopping the effect of the belt.

While the ginkgo biloba, ginkgo biloba fruit have good medicinal effects, but directly picking the leaves on the roadside tree "on the ground" is not scientific. Because the active ingredients of ginkgo biloba need to be chemically extracted in order to play a medicinal effect, and ginkgo biloba in addition to containing lactones and flavonoids two categories of active ingredients, but also contains leucocyanic acid, hydrocyanic acid and other toxic ingredients.

Lactones, flavonoids and other active ingredients are difficult to dissolve in water, toxic leucocyanic acid, hydrocyanic acid and other water-soluble but relatively high. If you take ginkgo biloba directly in water, not only can not reach the role of health care, treatment of disease, but may cause poisoning.

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