Yin Xing "Silver Apricot" AKA Bai Guo "White Fruit" (Sm. Gingko Bilobae)
Properties: Sweet, bitter, astringent, neutral, slightly toxic
Channel: Lung, Kidney
Functions and Actions:
Astringes Lung qi, expels phlegm and stops wheezing; for wheezing with coughing and copious sputum
Nutrition: Use nutritionally for acute or chronic asthma;
Crush seeds without shell, put in cold water and cook with chicken. Use
10 nuts per chicken or 20-30 nuts per 2 chickens (traditionally with the
small black-boned chickens). For an adult 10 pieces is okay, for a child use 5
pieces. One can eat this dish 2-3 X per week if ill.
Dosage in decoction: 6-10g, must be crushed before use
Caution: dangerous when consumed raw in large dosage
not for use with excess conditons
not for cough with difficult expectoration of sputum
Reference:
Dr. Li Jin, OMD. Seattle, Washington
Chinese Pharmacopoeia Index