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The best Ginkgo biloba products

14 September 2002

It can’t just be the memorably exotic name nor the fact that Ginkgo biloba is a beautiful ornamental tree that has made it such a bestseller in the herbal pharmacopoeia. No, Ginkgo’s success comes from hard-nosed clinical evidence of its benefits - as an antioxidant and anticoagulant, but principally as a relief for the dementias of old age.

In Germany, where the medical system allows doctors to prescribe herbal remedies, it’s become the treatment of choice for Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, it’s become so popular there that, astonishingly, German doctors now write more prescriptions for Ginkgo than for any conventional pharmaceutical product.

It was in Germany in the 1950s that Ginkgo was first ‘discovered’, when botanist/physician Dr Willmar Schwabe made an extract from Ginkgo leaves from Japan. A sacred tree to Buddhists, Ginkgo had been known to Oriental medicine for millennia and cultivated for a variety of medicinal purposes - from asth...

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