Ginkgo

Author : Peter Crane
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300190476
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ginkgo written by Peter Crane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVPerhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered for its longevity. This engaging book tells the full and fascinating story of a tree that people saved from extinction—a story that offers hope for other botanical biographies that are still being written./divDIV /divDIVInspired by the historic ginkgo that has thrived in London’s Kew Gardens since the 1760s, renowned botanist Peter Crane explores the evolutionary history of the species from its mysterious origin through its proliferation, drastic decline, and ultimate resurgence. Crane also highlights the cultural and social significance of the ginkgo: its medicinal and nutritional uses, its power as a source of artistic and religious inspiration, and its importance as one of the world’s most popular street trees. Readers of this extraordinarily interesting book will be drawn to the nearest ginkgo, where they can experience firsthand the timeless beauty of the oldest tree on Earth./div

Author : Jonathan Gresty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgetful Ginkgo written by Jonathan Gresty and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the park is colourful, full of flowers, happy animals and children. And there is also friendly Mr Ginkgo with a loftycrown of leaves which provides shelter from the sun on hot summer days. But why does he forget the names of his friendsin autumn? Why does he remember them again in spring? This playful story about a Ginkgo biloba tree and its effects onthe human body will quickly become a kids' favourite. You'd better start reading it before you forget.

Author : Teris A vanBeek
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203304942
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ginkgo Biloba written by Teris A vanBeek and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-02-23 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A present and up-to-date overview of this particular genus, the contents of this volume include a history of its use, biotechnology, extraction of ginkgo leaves and extensive coverage of the ginkolides; their discovery, biosynthesis, chemical analysis, clinical use and pharmacological activity. Other important constituents are also given attention.

Author : Lisa Mertins
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780395735763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ginkgo and Moon written by Lisa Mertins and published by Thomas Allen Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ginkgo tree tries to attract the moon's attention, but the moon is too busy chasing after the sun to notice the humble ginkgo.

Author : Emmett Fisher
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634844604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ginkgo Biloba written by Emmett Fisher and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of medicinal plants or natural products increased in the last decades all over the world. One of the most popular herbal plants is Ginkgo biloba L. because of its widespread healing effects. Ginkgo has been used by the traditional medicine for thousands of years. It has been a sacred tree, a symbol of yin and yang, of longevity and vitality. The Chinese had begun their medicinal use of the tree with the seeds, but they soon added the leaves and even the roots to their list of valuable medicinal materials. Ginkgo biloba has been thoroughly investigated for its constituents, and a whole array of compounds has been described. Chapter One in this book presents the basic biological description, phylogeographic history, and the ecological characteristics of Ginkgo biloba. Chapter Two studies the elemental composition of Ginkgo biloba L. leaves. Chapter Three discusses different ginkgo preparations. Chapter Four presents the results of a screening of different crude extracts, infusions and standardised extract from the Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae) leaves for total phenolic content, concentration of flavonoids and in vitro antioxidant activity.

Author : Thomas Wilson Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813042480
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscaping with Conifers and Ginkgo for the Southeast written by Thomas Wilson Cox and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to selecting the proper conifer and gingko for the landscapes and climates of the Southeast.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Drugs and Herbal Products written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the IARC Monographs provides an assessment of the carcinogenicity of 14 drugs and herbal products. The IARC Monographs Working Group relied on epidemiological studies to evaluate the carcinogenic hazard to humans exposed to the drugs digoxin (widely prescribed for the treatment of chronic heart failure), pioglitazone (used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus), and hydrochlorothiazide (used to treat hypertension). Other agents evaluated included the drugs primidone, sulfasalazine, pentosan polysulfate sodium, and triamterene, and five herbal products (or their components): Aloe vera whole leaf extract, goldenseal root powder, Ginkgo biloba leaf extract, kava extract, and pulegone. In view of the limited agent-specific information available from epidemiological studies, assessments of these agents relied mainly on carcinogenicity bioassays to reach conclusions as to the carcinogenic hazard to exposed humans.

Author : E.W. Fünfgeld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642736866
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rökan written by E.W. Fünfgeld and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compendium the clinical and pharmacological properties of Ginkgo biloba, a standardized drug and the subject of increasing worldwide interest, are closely portrayed. Results of studies are presented here which illustrate the influence of Ginkgo on haemodynamic and rheologic parameters, metabolism and neurotransmitters. In addition to papers reporting on experimental research, data are also presented which provide firm interdisciplinary evidence for its successful therapeutic application, above all in the following indication areas: cerebral insufficiency with accompanying symptoms of dizziness, tinnitus, headache and memory loss, lability of mood and anxious states, and peripheral arterial disease.

Author : Christopher Hobbs
Publisher : Interweave Press
ISBN 13 : 9780961847036
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ginkgo, Elixir of Youth written by Christopher Hobbs and published by Interweave Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on how this herb can promote better short-term memory, slow the aging process, improve circulation, and assist in proper immune function.

Author : Arthur Sze
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320134
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ginkgo Light written by Arthur Sze and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Classically elegant.”—The New York Times Book Review Sze's free verse emphasizes at once how difficult, and how necessary, it is for us to imagine our world as a system whose ecologies and societies require us to care for all their interdependent parts." —Publishers Weekly “Sze’s list-laden sequences capture the world’s manifold facts one by one, then through discursive commentary exact from them a sense not only of aesthetic order but of universal cause and effect.”—Boston Review "Sze...here captures the energy of life in overshadowed daily events....His poems mine everything from geography, history, and biology to philosophy and nature, interweaving them to create a complex and luminous poetic texture....His poetry is an experience of awakening and pleasure that all serious students of contemporary poetry should have." —Library Journal "Whether incorporating nature, philosophy, history, or science, Sze's poems are expansive. They unfold like the time-slowed cinematic recording of a flower's blooming...Sze has a refreshingly original sensibility and style, and he approaches writing like a collagist by joining disparate elements into a cohesive whole." —Booklist A temple near the hypocenter of the atomic blast at Hiroshima was disintegrated, but its ginkgo tree survived to bud and bloom. Arthur Sze extends this metaphor of survival and perseverance to transform the world’s factual darkness into precarious splendor. “Each hour teems,” Sze writes, as he ingeniously integrates the world’s miraculous and mundane—a woodpecker drilling a utility pole or a 1300-year-old lotus seed—into a moving, visionary journey. Mayans charted Venus’s motion across the sky, poured chocolate into jars and interred them with the dead. A woman dips three bowls into hair’s fur glaze, places them in a kiln, anticipates removing them, red-hot, to a shelf to cool. When samba melodies have dissipated into air, when lights wrapped around a willow have vanished, what pattern of shifting lines leads to Duration? Arthur Sze, one of America’s leading poets, is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is professor emeritus of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and just completed a term as Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.