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The efficacy and role of ginkgo seeds
As the winter grew, the ginkgo trees on both sides of the road began to lose their bearing, and began to dye them golden, and then gradually left their branches and flew in the cold wind. The ginkgo tree is really beautiful, whether it is full of green branches or leaves falling back to the roots. The ginkgo tree is not only very ornamental, but its seed, the ginkgo seed, is also a good thing.
Ginkgo is also known as ginkgo biloba, it is the fruit of the ginkgo tree;It is sweet and bitter in taste, and flat in nature;Ginkgo seeds are small and delicate in color, and they are white. Ginkgo seeds contain starch, protein, fat, sugar, ginkgolic acid, vitamin C, calcium, iron and other rich nutrients and trace elements, to achieve the value of supplementing various nutrients needed by the human body.
1. Ginkgo seeds contain rich elements, which have the functions of nourishing yin and nourishing the skin, anti-oxidation, moisturizing the skin and making the face rosy. The flavonoids it contains can also reduce pigmentation, prevent the formation of dark spots, and have a whitening effect.
2. The trace elements contained in ginkgo seeds make it have the effect of unblocking blood vessels, improving brain function, delaying brain aging, and enhancing memory. 3. And it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that ginkgo cooked food has the medicinal value of warming the lungs and invigorating qi, fixing asthma, shrinking stool, and stopping white turbidity.
4. Tips: Every time the ginkgo fruit is ripe, there will be a smell on both sides of the road, because the outer seed coat of the ginkgo fruit contains low-grade fatty acids such as butyric acid and heptanoic acid, which will volatilize within a certain period of time, causing the ginkgo fruit to emit a foul smell of fat deterioration and fruit rot. It is normal for ginkgo biloba to stink and not because it is bad. Therefore, everyone should pay attention to wearing gloves and masks when picking ginkgo seeds, because it will take several days to wash off the rotten smell of ginkgo seed coats on your hands. The most important thing to wear gloves and masks is to prevent toxic ingredients from invading and causing redness, itching, rashing, inflammation and dizziness. Therefore, everyone must pay attention to protection when picking up ginkgo seeds and ginkgo seed coats. Ginkgo seeds are nutritious but should not be eaten more, and eating too much is easy to diarrhea;Pregnant women and children should not eat it.