White fruit is also one of the cough medicine, the fruit of the ginkgo tree is commonly known as white fruit, so the ginkgo tree is also known as “white fruit tree”. According to the “Compendium of Materia Medica” records: “Shi Zhen said that the original Jiangnan, leaves like duck palm, because the name of the duck feet. Song initial tribute, change the whistle ginkgo, because its shape like a small apricot and the nucleus color white also. Today’s name white fruit.” Ginkgo tree appeared hundreds of millions of years ago, is the oldest of the gymnosperms left after the glacial movement of the Quaternary period, now living ginkgo is rare and scattered, thousands of years old trees are rare, and it is the same class of all other plants have been extinct, so ginkgo also has the name of living fossil. Because of the long history of the ginkgo tree, legends about it are widely spread in China. The legendary story of white fruit Ginkgo tree can live for thousands of years. It takes more than 20 years from planting to fruiting, and 40 years to bear a lot of fruits. The tree is also called “Gongsun tree” because the grandfather plants the tree and the grandchildren pick the fruit. Its vitality is extremely strong. Beijing Tanzhe Temple has a Liao Dynasty ginkgo, legend has it that whenever a new master ascends to the throne, new branches will be born, Ganlong called “the emperor’s tree”. Ganlong ten years, he came to the Zen Forest Temple in Zunhua City, Hebei Province, five peaks, the temple has a male and twelve female a total of thirteen thousand-year-old ginkgo trees. Than Beijing Tanzhe Temple’s “emperor tree” is still a cut higher, the giant crown of the sky, shade cloth full of courtyard. Emperor Ganlong, in a moment of poetic fervor, had a poem for its majestic posture: “The ancient ke does not count people around, the leaves are lush branches and grandchildren green shade fat. The world’s vicissitudes read like a fantasy, the opening of the mountain big set to remember vaguely.” Ginkgo, the initial fame of the Song Dynasty, and the repair of the Materia Medica does not receive, recent prescriptions are also used from time to time. Its thin gas taste thick, astringent and collection, benefit lung gas, fixed cough, reduce stool, and can kill insects disinfection. However, if you eat a lot of it, you will receive too much, which will make you bloated and faint. Therefore, the “things of the phase of feeling” said ginkgo can intoxicate people, and “Sanyuan Yanshou book” said in the past, there are hungry people, with the white fruit to eat instead of rice, the next day they all died. Cooked food to warm the lungs and benefit the qi, coughing, reduce stool, stop white cloud; raw food to lower phlegm, disinfection and kill insects; (pounding) coated nose, face, hands and feet, to remove rashes and blisters, chapped wrinkles and scabies noma, pubic lice. Sources and effects of white fruit Source: This product is the dried mature seeds of the ginkgo plant Ginkgo biloba. Place of origin: produced throughout the country. Taste: bitter, astringent, flat, toxic; belongs to the lung meridian. Effects: Astringent to the lung and asthma, stopping the belt and reducing urination. Usage and dosage Internal use: decoction, 5-10g. Note: This product is toxic, should not be used more than one, children should be careful. Excessive consumption of white fruit can lead to poisoning, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, cyanosis, as well as coma, convulsions, serious cases can be paralysis and death. White fruit of taking “the herb again new”: nourish the heart, benefit the kidney nourish Yin, cough to remove annoyance, muscle long flesh, drain pus and remove poison, eliminate sores and scabies gangrene tumor. Therefore, the white fruit can treat: 1, asthma and phlegm cough. 2, dysbiosis, leucorrhea, frequent urination and enuresis.