Ginkgo Biloba

It is found in America, South Africa, China, Germany and Japan, and rarely in India. It is a high tree, up to 24m with clusters of long leaves, which are fan shaped with dioecious flowers. The fruit is a drupe consisting of an acrid foul smelling pulp, surrounded with cream coloured thin-shelled kerneled seeds. Ginkgo contains many active ingredients (mainly the ginkgolides, bilobalides and flavonoids). A homoeopathic tincture is made from the fresh leaves (during spring). It is covered by both: Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India and German Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia. It was proved by Dr. Maury…