Ginkgo is a deciduous tree of the genus Ginkgo in the family Ginkgoaceae, and is one of the most widely used natural medicines in the world. Ginkgo biloba is an endemic tree species in China, known as ‘living fossil’ and ‘panda of the plant world’, and all parts of the plant have different medicinal values. Ginkgo biloba contains a variety of active ingredients, with antioxidant, anti-apoptosis, improve cerebral blood flow, neuroprotection, inhibit platelet activity and other pharmacological effects, used in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, cancer, asthma, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, diabetic complications, and other diseases treatment. Ginkgo biloba Extract is a class of products enriched with active ingredients extracted from Ginkgo biloba as raw material, using appropriate solvents. Various preparations made from Ginkgo biloba Extract are widely used in the fields of drugs, health products, food additives, functional beverages, cosmetics and so on. Ginkgo biloba Extract is a light yellow-brown flowable powder with aroma and bitter taste.
The extraction of pharmaceutical ingredients from Ginkgo biloba began in the 20th century, in Ginkgo biloba has been proved to play a unique pharmacological activity of the active ingredients mainly include flavonoids, terpene lactones, they are the development of Ginkgo biloba Extracts and preparations of the quality standard of the important basis.
2014 version of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia records Ginkgo biloba efficacy for ‘activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing up the collaterals to alleviate pain, convergence of the lungs to calm the wheezing and resolving turbidity to lower lipids. Resolving turbidity and lowering fat. It is used in treating blood stasis, chest paralysis and heart pain, hemiplegia, coughing and wheezing in lung deficiency, and hyperlipidaemia.
1、Cardiovascular disease
Ginkgo biloba preparations to reverse the abnormal changes in fatty acids, phosphoglycerolipids, glycerides, amino acids, etc. and energy metabolites, the mechanism of action is closely related to the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and lipid-regulating pharmacological effects of the lactones and flavonoids components in the extract. Invisible active ingredients can inhibit platelet activation, antioxidant, anti-apoptosis and reduce calcium overload and other pathways to play a protective effect on myocardial ischemia, reduce myocardial injury.
2、Cerebrovascular disease
A large number of studies have shown that the active ingredients of ginkgo can prevent and control cerebrovascular diseases in a multi-link, multi-targeted way, scavenging free radicals, antioxidant, improving cerebral blood, anti-apoptosis, and affecting the release of psychotropic mediators. Clinical use of ginkgo preparations at home and abroad to improve cerebral circulation and peripheral vascular circulatory disorders and other aspects of significant efficacy, but the molecular mechanism of the study is not deep enough, especially in the improvement of memory and cognitive function, Ginkgo biloba Extract has the potential to become a therapeutic drug for AD.
3、Cancer
Ginkgo preparations are currently used as adjuvant therapy for a variety of cancers. Ginkgo biloba flavonoids are a good cancer inhibitor, able to inhibit the activity and growth of a variety of cancer cells.
4、Asthma
The Compendium of Materia Medica has recorded that Ginkgo biloba can ‘converge the lung qi, calm cough, stop turbidity’, ‘Chinese medicine’ also recorded that Ginkgo biloba has the effect of calming cough, expectorant, diuretic, as well as the treatment of certain difficult and miscellaneous diseases. The use of Ginkgo biloba in the treatment of asthma has a long history in China, and more and more widely used in asthma prevention and treatment, its mechanism of action for the inhibition of asthma-related inflammatory mediators and regulation of immune function.
Ginkgo biloba Extract improves blood circulation in all parts of the body, including the brain, and is therefore effective in treating and preventing a wide range of dysfunctional diseases, including heart, brain, and vascular diseases, brain damage, asthma, sexual function, allergic diseases, and even Alzheimer's and dementia, and sensory disorders of vision and hearing. With its multi-faceted medicinal benefits, it is very popular in Europe, America, Asia and even the global market.
