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    We, as consumers, are always trying to find new products to buy in which to improve

    ourselves. In modern-day American culture, improving oneself has become synonymous


    with feeling younger and healthier. Gingko biloba extract is one of the popular herbal
    supplements being marketed to mainstream consumers as a "smart" and "anti-aging" drug
    (http://www.stevemorow.com/food.htm) which will work to help to increase their overall
    brain functioning in the normal population, as well as, those who suffer from mental
    impairment due to aging. Gingko biloba extract has also been labeled an anti-aging drug
    due to its antioxidant properties, its supposed free radical scavenger properties, as well as
    its reported increases in people’s overall mental functioning. You see advertisements for
    it on television, as well as, the Internet making a large number of different kinds of
    claims of Gingko biloba’s benefits. The claimed benefits range from increasing overall
    brain functioning in normal people to people with mental impairment, to being a mood
    enhancer (http://www.televar.com/alpha/biloba.html), to helping with such slight
    conditions as cough and asthma, to helping increase circulation in patients suffering from
    painful vascular diseases to actually having "slimming" applications
    (http://www.mmpinc.com/WHATS.HTM). If all these claims are true, then Gingko
    biloba extract sounds like a "mulit-cure"drug for the entire population. This paper will
    attempt to reduce the confusion associated with the large number of claimed benefits of
    taking Gingko biloba by explaining what the research literature has to back up these
    claims. I had a hard time myself keeping track of all the reported claims. At this time,
    Gingko bil...

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    ...esearch, 4(2), 89-93.

    Taillandier, J., Ammar, A., Rabourdin, J.P., Ribeyre, J.P., Pichon, J., Niddam, S., Pierart,
    H. (1986). Treatment of cerebral aging disorders with Gingko biloba extract. A
    longitudinal multicenter double-blind drug vs. placebo study. Presse Medicale, 15(31)
    Sep. 25, 1583-7.

    Vettorello, G., Cerreta, G., Derwish, A., Cataldi, A., Schettino, A., Occhionorelli, S.,
    Donini, I. (1996). Contribution of a combination of aplha and beta benzopyrones,
    flavonoids, and natural terpenes in the treatment of lymphedema of the lower limbs at the
    2nd stage of the surgical classification. Minerva Cardioangiologica, 44(9), 447-55.

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