Ginkgo biloba is edible, but this product is poisonous and should not be eaten raw.
Ginkgo biloba (also known as white fruit), can be used both as medicine and food, as a traditional Chinese medicine, its taste sweet, bitter, astringent, flat, attributed to the lung meridian, with astringent lung (astringent lung qi) to fix wheezing, stopping the band to shrink the effect of urination, mostly used in the treatment of coughing and phlegm asthma, with the white cloudy (cloudy urine such as white slurry) and urination and urinary frequency, and so on. Usage of Bai Guo includes internal and external use. The method of internal use is to take appropriate amount of white fruit, decoction or into pills or powder, external use is crushed or sliced paste.
Since this product is toxic, it should not be eaten raw, and its toxicity is weakened after frying, so it is mostly used clinically, but the dosage should also be strictly controlled.
White fruit belongs to the Chinese herbal medicine, it is recommended to use under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, should not be purchased and taken on their own, so as not to delay the condition or even aggravate the symptoms.