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The Ginkgo Biloba has been used as food and medicine for more than 4000 years. The old Chinese and Japanese ate roasted seeds of ginko as a powerful digestive and in turn helped to prevent the drunkenness, partnered with a long life to the Hindus since its medicine ayurvéda allegedly used it as an ingredient in soma, an elixir of longevity.

The tree of Ginkgo Biloba is considered the most of the tree species that live in today and that known to mankind, goes back to more than 200 million years and has been described as a “living fossil”.

Today, the Chinese doctors see the Ginkgo as a good medicine for heart and lungs, the Chinese herbalists still use it to the treatment of asthma, bronchitis and brain disorders.

Doctors in Germany considered ginkgo biloba is as effective as any drug therapy for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of serious decline of the mental function and dementia, among them the senility.

The Ginkgo biloba is one of the herbs more studied of the world, with hundreds of scientific studies published documenting their varying effects. Read the rest of this entry »