According to Introduction to Medicine, Ginkgo biloba can "clear lung and stomach turbid qi, eliminate phlegm and relieve asthma and cough", which shows that the ancients recognized the effect of Ginkgo biloba on relieving cough and asthma.
When compiling Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen also did a lot of research on ginkgo fruit. The book records: "When ginkgo fruit is ripe, it warms the lungs and benefits qi, stops asthma and cough, reduces stool and stops white turbidity; Eating raw can eliminate phlegm, disinfect and kill insects. It can be seen that the time of taking ginkgo as medicine and the efficacy of different processed products are also different.
Eating ginkgo fruit mainly has the following advantages: 1. Ginkgo biloba can help people to astringe their lungs and relieve cough.
Ginkgo fruit tastes astringent and is good at convergence. Entering the lung meridian can astringe lung qi and has certain expectorant effect, so it is regarded as a good medicine for "astringing lung, relieving cough and asthma" by doctors.
For example, if you feel cold occasionally, or acute cough and asthma caused by cold evil entering the lungs, you can use some ginkgo nuts to relieve it; Ginkgo biloba is also effective for some fatigue cough and asthma caused by lung and kidney qi deficiency and kidney qi instability.
Ginkgo biloba can help people to coagulate sperm.
The astringent effect of ginkgo fruit is also very good, which can go down the jiao kidney meridian and play the role of consolidating semen and reducing urine. Ginkgo biloba leaves are also very suitable for some elderly people with unstable kidney qi.
For example, some middle-aged and elderly people may suffer from frequent urination, nocturnal enuresis, spermatorrhea, etc. caused by insufficient kidney-qi, and ginkgo biloba can be used as an auxiliary relief. Ginkgo biloba is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Fructus Corni and Fructus Rosae Laevigatae in traditional Chinese medicine, which has obvious effect of consolidating semen and reducing urine.
3. Ginkgo biloba can stop drying.
For some women, if the body is wet and turbid, there will often be too much leucorrhea. Ginkgo biloba can also alleviate such gynecological diseases.
For example, when a lady has symptoms of red and white with yellow turbidity, she is accompanied by soreness and coldness in her waist and knees. Ginkgo biloba, commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, is compatible with yam, Euryale ferox, lotus seed, phellodendron bark and plantain seed, which can play a better role in eliminating dampness and stopping leukorrhagia.
Ginkgo biloba leaves can prevent some chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly people.
Modern medical research has found that terpenoids, flavonoids and other components contained in Ginkgo biloba can play a role in resisting cell aging and oxidation, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular sclerosis, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar concentration. It can be seen that Ginkgo biloba leaves can also prevent some common chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly people.
Although ginkgo fruit has a good health-preserving effect, it should not be eaten more. Because ginkgo fruit belongs to "little toxicity" of traditional Chinese medicine, if it is eaten improperly, it is likely to lead to poisoning. After the ginkgo fruit is fried or boiled, the toxicity will be reduced, so many doctors now use cooked ginkgo as medicine. Even so, the amount of ginkgo fruit is very small, generally around 5- 10g, and at most not more than 15g.