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Indications

Complementary/Alternative Medicine: This monograph describes a natural or herbal product that is not subject to FDA guidelines for medicines. Patients and clinicians are advised to read package labels carefully to ensure safe and efficacious use.

REMS


Contraind./Precautions

Contraindicated in:

Use Cautiously in:

Adv. Reactions/Side Effects

CNS: CEREBRAL BLEEDING, dizziness, headache, seizure, vertigo

CV: palpitations

GI: flatulence, stomach upset

Derm: allergic skin reaction

Hemat: bleeding

Misc: hypersensitivity reactions

Interactions

Natural-Drug Products:

Natural-Natural Products:

Availability

Route/Dosage

Organic Brain Syndromes

Intermittent Claudication

Vertigo and Tinnitus

Cognitive Function Improvement

Premenstrual Syndrome

US Brand Names

Bai guo ye, fossil tree, ginkgo folium, Japanese silver apricot, kew tree, maidenhair-tree, salisburia adiantifolia, yinhsing

Action

  • Improves tolerance to hypoxemia, especially in cerebral tissue.
  • Inhibits development of cerebral edema and accelerates its regression.
  • Improves memory, blood flow (microcirculation), compensation of disequilibrium, and rheological properties of blood.
  • Inactivates toxic oxygen radicals.
  • Antagonizes platelet-activating factor.
  • Interferes with bronchoconstriction and phagocyte chemotaxis.
Therapeutic effects:
  • Symptomatic relief of dementia syndromes.
  • Inhibits arterial spasm, decreases capillary fragility and blood viscosity.
  • Improves venous tone, relaxes vascular smooth muscle.

Classifications

Therapeutic Classification: antiplatelet agents, central nervous system stimulants

Pharmacokinetics

Absorption: 70–100% absorption.

Distribution: Unknown.

Metabolism/Excretion: Unknown.

Half-Life: Unknown.

Time/Action Profile

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Patient/Family Teaching

Pronunciation

GING-ko