Chinese Medicine

Ginkgo biloba herb, also known as Bai Guo, regularly refers to ginkgo seeds and leaves from point of view of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Why Ginkgo biloba herb is so popular nowadays? The reason probably is for its renowned anti-aging effect and memory improvement. Furthermore, ginkgo biloba herb can serve as both delicious food and medicinal herb. Anyway, as a regular herb in many Chinese medicine formulas, what ginkgo biloba herb can do is more than that.

Property of ginkgo biloba herb and channels impacted

To know better about ginkgo biloba herb from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the shortcut is to tell its temperature and taste properties.

Temperature and Taste Properties:

• Bitter
• Sweet
• Neutral
• Astringent

Channels Impacted:

• Kidney
• Lung

Modern research about ginkgo biloba herb benefits

According to modern medical research, ginkgo biloba herb can do a lot of things as follows.

• Ginkgo biloba herb unobstructs clogged blood vessel;
• Ginkgo biloba herb improves brain function;
• Ginkgo biloba herb delays natural aging process;
• Ginkgo biloba herb enhances memory;
• Ginkgo biloba herb treats senile dementia;
• Ginkgo biloba herb treats insufficient blood supply to the brain.

In addition, it can also do its part job on protecting the liver, reducing arrhythmia and preventing allergic reactions in fatal bronchoconstriction. Also, it can be used in combating asthma, myocardial infarction, stroke, organ protection and dialysis.

Ginkgo biloba herb benefits from perspective of TCM

From the long-term application of ginkgo biloba herb in treatment of a variety of illness, Chinese people have accumulated a lot of proven experiences. In summary, regularly ginkgo biloba herb can be effective in treating following syndromes.

1. Treatment of asthma, phlegm and cough, leucorrhea, gonorrhea, nocturnal emission and urinary frequency.

• Convergence of lung and reduction of phlegm. Ginkgo biloba herb can be used in symptoms of coughing, asthma, reversed flow of Qi and excessive amount of phlegm regardless partial cold or partial heat.
• Astringent for stopping leucorrhea and removing dampness. Ginkgo biloba herb can be used in treatment of leucorrhea regardless whitish vaginal discharge caused by deficiency of lower burner, or yellow and turbid vaginal discharge caused by descending dampness-heat. Anyway, to attain the best result of treatment, ginkgo biloba herb needs to combine with other herbs according to syndrome differentiation.
• Removing phlegm and relieving asthma. Ginkgo biloba herb can be used in treatment of coughing, asthma and excessive amount of phlegm.
• Convergence for removing dampness. Ginkgo biloba herb can be used in treatment of yellow or whitish vaginal discharge, gonorrhea, urinary frequency and enuresis.

2. Treatment of tuberculosis

Ginkgo biloba herb can improve the symptoms of tuberculosis, such as fever, night sweats, cough, asthma, hemoptysis, loss of appetite etc. After taking it for a period of time, all those above-mentioned symptoms can disappear or improve tremendously.

Side effects of ginkgo biloba herb

Taking raw ginkgo biloba seeds might lead to poisoning. The adverse reactions might occur 1 to 12 hours after eating mistakenly.

The symptoms include as follows.

• Fever;
• Vomiting;
• Abdominal pain;
• Diarrhea;
• Convulsions;
• Breathing difficulties;
• Respiratory failure and death in some severe cases;
• Sensory disturbances and lower limb paralysis in a few others;
• Blister and allergic contact dermatitis in some others when touching the outer coat of ginkgo biloba seeds.

Ginkgo biloba herb is one of marvelous herbs, which can do so much for us. I believe ginkgo biloba herb can do much more than what we have found in it with the help of advance of modern science. Anyway, it needs the combined efforts of western and Chinese medicine to explore it because we need to know better it from different angles, instead of from the single channel.