Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae)effective in helping to repair the brain from damage
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GINKGO
With its many benificial uses, Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae), has been used for hundreds of years in China. It's folk name is the Maidenhair Tree. Ginkgo is effective in helping to repair the brain from damage, it protects cell membranes from free radical damage, improving concentration and memory, increasing blood flow, helping the symptoms of PMS, and helping with depression. It also has been known to help treat conditions associated with aging such as strokes and heart disease. Impotence, Cochlear Deafness, and Macular Blindness are also some conditions it helps by improving circulation.
Most recently in the United States, Ginkgo has become the popular alternative for women taking hormones for menapause. In studies it has been shown to combat intellectual diminishnent due to lack of circulation to the brain. This herb has shown a very extensive ability to help with many ailments, all of which tend to be connected somehow to circulatory problems.
Ginkgo is commonly combined with other herbs such as Gotu Kola and Hawthorne Berries to help to excel its healing properties. It is combined with Gotu Kola when healing the brain of alzheimer's disease as well as dimentia and many others. Hawthorne berries are good to mix with Ginkgo to aid in healing the heart and circulatory system.
Magical Uses
Use Ginkgo to make a dye for cloth. The inner bark makes a whitish-brown colour. The dye contains lime and potassium carbonate.
Harvesting and Growing
Ginkgo grows best in China, where it originated. I don't have much information about growth cycles or harvesting. If you do, let me know in the guestbook!
How to take
It takes many leaves to extract any potency from the plant, so it is best to take in pill form rather than an infusion. You can buy it pre-packaged or the bulk herb in your local health food store. Ginkgo has recently become so popular (getting up there with Ginseng) that I saw a packaged version in Wal-Mart. (Wal-Mart is a local Super-grocery/K-Mart store)
Warning:
Do not take if you have clotting problems.
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