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Botantical name: Ginkgo biloba
Common name: Gingko (Ginko)
Alzheimer's Association: "Ginkgo biloba is thought
to have both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, to protect cell membranes, and to regulate neurotransmitter function. Ginkgo has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese
medicine and currently is being used in Europe to alleviate cognitive symptoms associated with a number of neurological conditions.
Currently, multicenter trial with about 3,000 participants is investigating whether Ginkgo may help prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia. Results from this
study show that ginkgo may help some individuals with Alzheimer's disease."
Gingko used in Chinese Traditional Medicine Improves blood flow
Protects against oxidative cell damage from free radicals (antioxidant), and
blocks many of the effects of PAF (platelet aggregation: "blood clotting")
help in the treatment of many human ailments, especially for middle-aged and older people.
asthma,
bronchitis,
hearing loss,
couching,
tuberculosis,
poor circulation,
memory loss,
gonorrhea,
stomach pain,
skin diseases,
leukorrhoe,
angina pectoris,
dysenterie,
high bloodpressure,
anxiety.
chillblains, and
woundplaster.
The powdered leaf is inhaled for asthma, ear, nose and throat disorders like bronchitis and chronic rhinitis. woundplaster.
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Extracts and teas made from the green leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree, a native of China, are the best selling herbal products in the world.
The most important active ingredients, which are unique to the Gingko, are the Ginkgoflavoneglycos, Bilobalide, and terpenelactones including ginkgolides A, B and C.
In China, Ginkgo tree remedies have been used for over 5,000 years to treat cardiovascular problems as well as lung disorders, including asthma. Recently, American medical researchers
have begun studying Ginkgo. There are currently over 35 professional and clinical studies underway in the US alone, all investigating the correlation of effects of ginkgo on the human body.
Ginkgo's most powerful effect is on the circulating system. Ginkgo flavenoids directly dilate the smallest segment of the circulating system, the micro-capillaries, which increase both blood
circulation and oxygen levels in the brain as well as in other critical organ tissues. Ginkgo also prevents platelet aggregation or clumping inside the arterial walls. This increases arterial wall
strength and flexibility and decreases the opportunity for the formation of arteriosclerostic plague. As Ginkgo increases oxygen flow to the brain and enhances the brains uptake and
utilization of glucose it also is being reasearched for its role in the senility, absentmindedness, headaches and Alzheimers disease and its role in improving alertness, memory and mental performance.
Related to circulatory improvement, German researchers have also been studying ginkgo as a treatment for atheroclerotic peripheral vascular disease. This disease impairs walking and
ginkgo has been shown to help blood flow to the legs allowing people towalk further with far less pain.
Aside from these critical, high profile circulatory effects, Ginkgo micro-elements also enhance
the body's ability to produce the universal energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This can in turn, decrease fatigue and listlessness.
Finally, ginkgo is an etremely important anti-oxidant shown to have a special affinity for scavanging the superoxide radicals. Due to its antioxidant role, Ginkgo can increase cellular
longeivity, protect against pulmonary disease, provide membrane stabliity, and support ocular strucular integrity (ie. prevent maculos degeneration).
The Ginkgo leaves are hand picked to insure that the plant's terpene rich veins are not distroyed. Once harvested, the leaves are dried to an extract moisture level to maintain active
constituant potencies. After drying the leaves are reduced to powder for use in infusion bags.
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