Ginkgo biloba L is a unique economic plant resource in my country and is listed as a national key protected plant. At present, my country has abundant ginkgo resources, accounting for about 75% of the world's total. In addition, there are only a small amount of pure wild ginkgo in my country's Tianmu Mountain, Shennongjia and Dabie Mountain in the world.

Ginkgo biloba leaves are sweet, bitter, astringent, and flat. Return to the heart and lung meridians. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, astringing the lungs and relieving asthma, and removing turbidity and lowering lipids. Used for blood stasis blocking collaterals, chest pain and heartache, stroke hemiplegia, lung deficiency cough and asthma, hyperlipidemia.

In recent years, the market consumption of ginkgo biloba extract preparations and health food has increased year by year, and it has become one of the most popular varieties in the global botanical drug market. It is mainly used to treat blood circulation disorders such as the brain and peripheral areas. Dementia, senile dementia, etc. also have good curative effect.

Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that ginkgolides and flavonoids are the main components of Ginkgo biloba to exert pharmacological effects.

The efficacy and role of Ginkgo biloba extra

1. Promote the effect on cerebral circulation and blood-brain barrier

Ginkgo biloba leaf preparation can improve brain cell metabolism; reduce blood-brain barrier permeability. The preventive application of Ginkgo biloba preparation can significantly reduce the cerebral hemisphere embolism and cerebral edema caused by the injection of radioactive microspheres into the common carotid artery, normalize the energy metabolism of brain cells, and increase cerebral blood flow.

2. Effects on the central nervous system

(1) Ginkgo biloba leaves can improve learning and memory, promote the learning and memory process of primary school students, and improve memory reproducibility

(2) Protective effect on nerves: Ginkgo biloba leaves can reduce the damage of auditory nerve. Clinically, GbE can significantly improve deafness and tinnitus caused by ischemia and metabolic disorders.

(3) Effects on aging, dementia and brain dysfunction: Ginkgo biloba can increase the density of muscarinic receptors in the hippocampus of senile rats. There were significant improvements.

3. Effects on the cardiovascular system

Ginkgo biloba can protect the ischemic myocardium and reduce the occurrence of arrhythmia in normal or hypertrophic hearts. Flavonoids can dilate guinea pig coronary arteries, dilate blood vessels in in vivo guinea pig hindlimbs and isolated rat hindlimbs, and increase blood flow in rabbit carotid and ear arteries. In addition, Ginkgo biloba also has the functions of scavenging free radicals, anti-lipid peroxidation, anti-platelet activating factor, inhibiting platelet aggregation, and lowering blood lipids.

4. Beauty effect

(1) Ginkgo biloba leaves can reduce the level of lipid peroxidation, reduce freckles, moisturize the skin, and make the appearance beautiful.

(2) The flavonoid glycosides and amino acids in Ginkgo biloba leaves synthesize collagen components, which play a significant role in human beauty, inhibiting the growth of melanin, and maintaining skin luster and elasticity.

(3) The excellent antioxidant components in Ginkgo biloba leaves fight against the production of free radicals and prevent collagen oxidation.

(4) Ginkgo biloba leaves can improve the microcirculation of the skin, not only prevent the skin from drying and yellowing, but also make the skin pink and white.

Contraindications to Ginkgo Biloba Extract

Common ginkgo tea, ginkgo tablets, etc., are extracted from fresh ginkgo leaves through a series of scientific and standardized operations, which have been detoxified and meet national standards. The active ingredients of Ginkgo biloba, such as flavonoids and terpene lactones, can only play their role after being refined through strict procedures.

Directly soaking ginkgo leaves in water will not allow the active ingredients to work, but may have some toxic substances dissolved in them, such as ginkgolic acid. Can cause allergy, induce gene mutation, embryotoxicity, cause liver damage, nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, etc. my country's current Pharmacopoeia clearly stipulates that the total ginkgolic acid in Ginkgo biloba extract must be less than 10 parts per million.

Another point to note is that many heart disease patients will take low-dose aspirin for a long time. If co-administered with ginkgo biloba or ginkgo biloba preparations, it may enhance the changes in blood rheology and coagulation function due to synergistic effects. A study has shown that people who take aspirin for a long time and take 40 mg of ginkgo biloba preparations orally twice a day can cause iris bleeding in the eyes. If you have just had surgery, taking ginkgo biloba and aspirin at the same time has a higher risk of bleeding.

In addition to aspirin, drugs that reduce blood viscosity should be used with the same caution when combined with ginkgo biloba preparations.

Ginkgo Biloba Extract Supplier

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