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    User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba
    User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba
    User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba
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    User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba

    By Hyla Cass, M.D., Jack Challem and Jim English

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    In the months following the September 11 attacks, world leaders began a flurry of attempts to muzzle the press. Some governments prevented journalists from covering anti-US demonstrations or criticizing US policies. Others opportunistically adopted the rhetoric of the war on terrorism to justify repressive measures against the media. Still other leaders took a cue from the tactics used by the US military in Afghanistan to keep the press away from the battlefield.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateSep 1, 2002
    ISBN9781591206071
    User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba
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    Hyla Cass, M.D.

    Nationally acclaimed innovator and expert in the fields of integrative medicine, psychiatry, and addiction recovery, Dr. Cass helps individuals to take charge of their health. One area is in withdrawing from both psychiatric medication and substances of abuse with the aid of natural supplements. Dr. Cass appears often as a guest on national radio and television, including The Dr. Oz Show, E! Entertainment, and The View, and in national print media. She has been quoted in many national magazines, blogs for the Huffington Post, and is the author of several best-selling books including: Natural Highs, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health, Supplement your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition, and her ebook, The Addicted Brain and How to Break Free. She has created her own line of innovative nutritional supplements. A member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Health Sciences Institute and Taste for Life Magazine, she is also Associate Editor of Total Health Magazine, she has served on the boards of California Citizens for Health and the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). A native of Toronto, she graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), and of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM)

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      User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba - Hyla Cass, M.D.

      INTRODUCTION

      Ginkgo biloba is the best-selling prescription herb in Europe, the fifth most widely used herb in the United States, and one of the most highly sought-after herbs in the world, all for good reason. It became one of the most highly prized natural supplements because of its proven effectiveness for enhancing memory and mental function, improving blood circulation to the brain, reducing inflammation, relieving allergies and asthma, and protecting the body from the effects of aging. Ginkgo’s well-earned reputation is supported by more than thirty years of scientific and clinical research. In this book, we are going to outline a number of these studies and let you see for yourself the important benefits this magnificent herb has to offer.

      A major health threat facing humans, especially aging baby boomers now entering middle age, is the decline in their mental abilities. The decline was traditionally accepted as a normal part of the human aging process, but that idea is now being discarded as an outmoded concept, and treatment for this formerly accepted process is now regularly sought out. The result is that healthcare providers and medical professionals are struggling to cope with the growing flood of older people and their caregivers all looking for ways to treat dementia, memory impairment, and other age-related cognitive dysfunctions. To solve this crisis, medical researchers from around the world have engaged in a desperate search for new treatments to help prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain conditions.

      For years, American doctors dismissed the value of herbs, preferring instead to prescribe expensive drugs. European doctors, on the other hand, have always prescribed phytomedicines, or herbal medicines, alongside the pharmaceuticals. And there has been enough research done on these herbs in Europe that physicians in the United States are beginning to take notice.

      One of the most impressive bodies of research growing out of this medical challenge to find new treatments consists of several thousand published studies on ginkgo biloba. In China, extracts of the fruit and leaves of the ginkgo tree have been used for more than 5,000 years to treat asthma, cardiovascular diseases, and poor memory. And over the last fifty years, clinical studies have documented the many attributes of this ancient tree herb.

      It has been found to alleviate angina pectoris (chest pain) due to coronary artery disease; asthma; depression; intermittent claudication (leg pain due to poor blood flow when walking); macular degeneration; PMS symptoms, including edema (swelling); and tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

      It can also:

      • Improve memory in both normal adults and those with Alzheimer’s disease; pulmonary function; sexual function and desire in both men and women; and visual acuity.

      • Inhibit platelet aggregation and the tendency for blood to clot abnormally.

      • Reduce or eliminate vertigo (dizziness and loss of stability).

      • Reduce elevated blood pressure.

      Ginkgo has been able to perform this myriad of beneficial effects because of its antioxidant properties, its ability to enhance blood flow in your arteries and capillaries, and its amazing ability to inhibit the platelet-activating factor (PAF), and thereby prevent abnormal blood clots from forming.

      In the following chapters, we will outline the history of this ancient healing herb for you, and examine the growing list of its remarkable health benefits, which includes the ability to boost mental functions, strengthen the cardiovascular system, and fend off the ravages of aging.

      CHAPTER 1

      DISCOVERY OF A LIVING FOSSIL

      If you were to search for a natural compound that could offer protective benefits against the effects of aging, ginkgo would crop up as a most likely candidate. Not only is ginkgo one of the most ancient surviving species in the world—its fossils from the Triassic period date back almost 200 million years—but it is also one of the most long-lived of all plants. There are ginkgo trees that have lived for more than 1,000 years—and they are still living.

      When the unusually shaped impressions left in ancient shale deposits were first discovered, botanists identified the plant as a gymnosperm, a plant family that includes pines, cedars, and firs. Eventually, fifteen different types of the Ginkgo - aceae tree family were identified, but only from fossil records, so it was believed that all these plants were extinct, the victims of massive climatic changes during the last major ice age.

      In the early 1700s, all this changed when Western researchers were stunned to learn that a species of ginkgo had been found thriving in China and Asia. The discovery created quite a sensation at the time, particularly as reports about the medicinal uses of this sacred plant had begun to surface in the West.

      The Way of Long Life

      The name ginkgo was first given to the newly discovered plant in the early 1700s by a German surgeon working in Asia for the Dutch East India Company. He coined the name ginkgo from the phonetic transcription of a Japanese variation on the Chinese word yinhsing, which means silver apricot. In 1771, the famed Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, recognized as the Father of Taxonomy for his system of classifying plants, renamed the plant ginkgo biloba, (ginkgo with two lobes) based on the unique division of the leaves into two lobes. The ginkgo tree is also sometimes referred to as the kew or maidenhair tree, because the leaves also bear a likeness to the fronds of maidenhair ferns.

      The West soon learned that, in addition to being revered as a sacred plant that was commonly planted around Buddhist temples, the leaves and fruit of the ginkgo tree had been used in traditional Chinese medicine for more

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