[HN Gopher] Immortal by Default: A brief history of humans and t... ___________________________________________________________________ Immortal by Default: A brief history of humans and the ginkgo tree Author : Vigier Score : 49 points Date : 2022-10-22 22:43 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.laphamsquarterly.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.laphamsquarterly.org) | otikik wrote: | I don't know how accurate the source was, but I have heard that | people use the dried leaves to prepare a tea-like infusion as | well as to smoke them. | tetraca wrote: | These are the worst. My campus had them lining the boulevard, and | every autumn the air would reek like vomit. | melony wrote: | This explains so much why Ginkgo Bioworks is named what it is. | abemiller wrote: | Because it's immortal? | melony wrote: | Pretty much, anti-aging is the rage right now. | jhoechtl wrote: | The original content https://www.science.org/content/article/how- | ginkgo-biloba-ac... | | > The leaves of the tree did not undergo comparable | medicalization. | | The leaves were never part of TCM. That's an invention of western | money makers. | JohnJamesRambo wrote: | Do you have a reference for that assertion? Googling and the | wiki doesn't seem to support that idea. | | >Although it is the seed that features most prominently in the | Chinese materia medica, both oral tradition and written sources | indicate that the medicinal properties of the gingko's leaves | have been utilized just as early and extensively. One | indication is the fact that before the seeds were discovered by | the imperial kitchen, the gingko's main name-Duck Feet Tree-was | fashioned after the leaves. Furthermore, regional herb usage in | Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Hebei, Henan, Liaoning and other | gingko rich provinces documents that the gingko leaf has been | used as a folk herb for a long time. And most importantly, the | gingko leaf received a formal entry in the official materia | medica commissioned by the Imperial Academy of Medicine almost | 500 years ago. | | from https://classicalchinesemedicine.org/ginkgo-cultural- | backgro... | zasdffaa wrote: | FYI the seeds are bloody revolting to eat. Caveat Nibbler, I | suppose. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-24 23:00 UTC)