Fresh ginkgo biloba is the mature fruit of ginkgo biloba, and dried ginkgo biloba is the core of ginkgo biloba. Mature fresh ginkgo is orange, dry white stone is white, ginkgo meat is pale yellow, and it is emerald green after peeling.

However, fresh ginkgo is poisonous and inedible. Usually, the dried ginkgo is white pulp, and the white pulp is the kernel in ginkgo, that is, peeled ginkgo.

Dried Ginkgo biloba: alias Ginkgo biloba, Gongsun fruit, Ginkgo biloba seed, Gongsun tree seed, duck foot tree seed, Ginkgo biloba, Lingyan, Fojia orange and bergamot. Ginkgo biloba is flat, sweet and bitter, and has little toxicity, and enters the lung and kidney meridians. Ginkgo biloba is rich in protein, amino acids, fat, carotene, vitamin B2, calcium, phosphorus, iron and trace hydrocyanic acid.

Dried ginkgo biloba

Fresh ginkgo biloba

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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.

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.

Therefore, adults should not eat more, and children under 5 years old should not eat ginkgo.

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