The Ginkgo tree first appeared more than 300 million years ago and can be said to be a living fossil in the plant world.
Ginkgo tree
Ginkgo tree is tall and straight, with straight trunk, fan-shaped and elegant leaves. It is green in spring and summer and golden in late autumn. It has extremely high ornamental value. In addition to its long lifespan, it is listed as one of the four longest-lived ornamental tree species in China along with pine, cypress and locust tree.
Ginkgo tree
However, what we are going to talk about today is not the ginkgo tree, but the ginkgo fruit .
Ginkgo biloba, also known as Ginkgo . When everyone looks at it, both ginkgo and ginkgo have the word "fruit" in them, so they naturally think that ginkgo is the fruit of ginkgo.
No, the ginkgo tree does not bear fruit, and the ginkgo we are talking about here is the seed of the ginkgo tree.
Ginkgo
Ginkgo tree grows slowly and has an extremely long lifespan. Under natural conditions, it takes more than twenty years from planting to bearing ginkgo, and it takes forty years to produce ginkgo in large quantities. Therefore, some people call it "Gongsun Ginkgo". "Tree" means "if a public plant is planted, the grandson will get food".
So, what are the medicinal values of such a rare ginkgo? You might as well spend three to five minutes and listen to Polygala count them one by one.
Condensing the lungs and calming asthma
Some people always cough easily after recovering from a serious illness. There is not much phlegm, but they just can't stop coughing. I thought that after a period of recuperation, the cough symptoms would be relieved.
Unexpectedly, after a while, I still coughed non-stop every day. It's fine during the day, but I keep coughing like this at night, which seriously affects the sleep quality of myself and those around me!
So I went to the pharmacy and bought some medicine to moisten the lungs and relieve cough. However, after taking it for a period of time, my cough symptoms did not improve.
Don’t be too busy complaining about whether the medicine is good or not. It should be noted that the main reason for the little effect is that the medicine you take is not suitable for the disease at all.
Seeing this, you may feel strange. Isn’t it wrong to drink cough syrup when you cough?
Maybe it’s really wrong. Please note that in the cognitive scope of traditional Chinese medicine, cough can be divided into virtual and actual conditions.
First of all, chronic cough is mainly caused by external evils invading the muscle surface. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the lungs control the skin . External evils will invade our lungs through the pores and along the meridians. Therefore, the treatment of chronic cough is mainly to eliminate evils. Lord.
After talking about cough with syndrome, let’s talk about cough with deficiency syndrome.
The so-called cough with deficiency syndrome refers to weak lung qi. For people with chronic cough, lung Qi overflows and becomes difficult to absorb. Therefore, for people with deficient syndrome, not to mention evil spirits, they even have little righteousness left. Do you think it will be useful to use medicinal materials to dispel evil spirits at this time?
Therefore, people with deficiency syndrome and cough should support lung qi .
In the words of our ancestors, "the excess is purged, and the deficient is replenished."
So how to distinguish between excess and deficiencies?
is very simple. Generally speaking, coughs at the beginning are mostly symptomatic; while coughs after fatigue, heat, and serious illness are mostly due to deficiency.
If your cough does not get better over time, you might as well use some ginkgo!
The bitter taste of ginkgo is mixed with a little sweetness, and the taste is astringent and flat. It mainly enters the lung meridian. It is especially good at converging lung qi and relieving cough. It also has the effects of calming asthma and resolving phlegm.
"Introduction to Medicine": "Clears turbid qi in the lungs and stomach, resolves phlegm, calms asthma, and relieves cough."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Collects Fei Jin on the upper side to eliminate cough and reverse, and removes dampness and turbidity on the lower side to resolve phlegm and saliva."
Ginkgo
is often used with Schisandra chinensis, walnut meat and other medicinal materials that can nourish the kidneys and relieve qi, astringe the lungs and relieve asthma can be used together.
Schisandra chinensis
Walnut meat
Dryness and dampness stop
It is now the hot summer, and in a while, the rainy season will come, and the rain will not stop. If the city you live in is also along the coast, then you must be deeply aware of it. same feeling.
Therefore, we often say that summer is the humidest season of the year.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness is the heaviest, sticky, dirty and turbid .
The so-called heaviness means that after the human body feels the dampness evil, it is often accompanied by a heavy head as if wrapped , the whole body is heavy, the limbs are sore, are lazy and heavy, joint pain is heavy, etc. symptom. This is because the damp evil invades the muscle surface and stays in the meridians and joints, hindering the normal physiological functions of the human body, and the nourishing qi and defending qi cannot be reconciled.
The so-called sticky means that most of the symptoms caused by dampness are prone to recurrence and lingering and difficult to heal.
The so-called turbidity mostly refers to the turbidity and turbidity of various secretions of the human body after the dampness evil causes disease. In addition, the dampness evil is originally water, and the water nature tends to be downward, so it mostly occurs in the lower burner, such as turbid urine , women leucorrhea excessive, etc.
Ginkgo tastes bitter, and is good at removing dampness and reducing diarrhea. Therefore, ginkgo is good at removing dampness, releasing turbidity, and drying dampness to stop vaginal discharge.
In addition, its astringent taste also has astringent effects, which can reduce astringency and stop bleeding.
Simply speaking, white fruit is a good medicine for drying dampness and stopping vaginal discharge.
"Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Chronic stranguria and vaginal discharge in women."
Ginkgo
is often used together with Phellodendron , Plantago Seed and other heat-clearing and dampness-clearing drugs.
Phellodendron
Psyllium chinensis
solidify sperm and shrink urine
Some people get older, and the problem of urgent urination and frequent urination becomes apparent.
It's fine during the day, but in the middle of the night, I have to run to the toilet twice, which is probably a sleepless night.
As a result, some people try to drink as little water as possible at night, or even drink no water at all, but the urge to urinate still comes as promised.
Why do you have the problem of frequent urination?
First of all, the main physiological function of our bladder is to store urine in the human body. The kidneys and bladder are mutually exclusive. If kidney qi is lost, the bladder will not open and close properly.
And the kidney is the foundation of innateness . As we age, kidney qi gradually declines and there are congenital defects. kidney qi is not consolidated , and the symptoms will be urgent urination and frequent urination.
Ginkgo is good at retracting astringency and fixing lower burnt energy. It is a commonly used medicine for treating urgent urination and frequent urination.
"Compendium": "Reduce stool and stop white turbidity."
"Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Cure nocturnal emissions and enuresis."
Ginkgo
However, the medicinal effect of ginkgo alone is limited after all, you can add black medicine , cover Pots and other medicinal materials that can nourish the kidneys and strengthen astringency.
Wiyao
Raspberry
Although ginkgo has many effects, its nature is good and astringent, so those with real evils need to use it with caution.
In addition, ginkgo should not be eaten raw. When used as medicine, its outer seed coat and inner thin skin and heart buds must be removed.
