GINGKO
Name: Gingko
Scientific name: Gingko Biloba
The other names: Forty ecus' tree,
Bai guo
Summary: Gingko is used in China
for a long time to look after intellectual traffic and asthma's problems.
Description: Tree in one or several
trunks with big fine leaves.
Environment and culture: Native from China, it would be the oldest existing tree on earth (its appearance would go back up(raise) to 190 million years. Today it is cultivated in France, in Japan in the USA and in China.
Used parts: Leaves, seeds
Constituents: gingkolides, flavanoïdes,
bilobalides
Manners: Treat the difficulties respiratory
(as the asthma) by decreasing the mucus. They looks after the incontinence
by toning up the bladder. Furthermore, by favoring the intellectual traffic,
it favors the memory, that is why of numerous old persons uses it because
of the virtues.
Effects: Stimulate the blood, antiasthmatic,
antispasmodic circulation, antiallergic, anti-inflammatory.
Warnings: not to exceed doses, the excesses can activate toxic reactions.
Preparation: Decoction, infusion, alcoholic tincture.
Directions for use: Infusion or decoction : 1 in 3 cups a day (at the rate of 10g by cup).
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