Can people with high blood pressure eat ginkgo nuts? Please note

Hypertension is a common disease in our daily life, and it is more common in the elderly. Doctors will have many instructions for patients with hypertension, and there are also many dietary taboos for patients with hypertension. So can patients with hypertension eat ginkgo nuts? Let me take you to learn about it.

1. Eating ginkgo can lower blood pressure! Modern medicine has proven that the flavonoids in ginkgo have special preventive and therapeutic effects on cerebral thrombosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, brain dysfunction and other diseases. Regular consumption of ginkgo can dilate capillaries, promote blood circulation, make people's skin rosy and their spirits refreshed.

2. Ginkgo leaves contain more than 200 medicinal ingredients, including 46 flavonoid active substances, 25 trace elements and 8 amino acids. The active ingredients, mainly flavonoids, have the functions of protecting capillary permeability, dilating coronary arteries, restoring arterial elasticity, lowering serum cholesterol, increasing coronary blood flow, improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular circulation, relieving smooth muscle spasms, relaxing bronchi and inhibiting bacteria, nourishing brain cells and other organs, and also have the unique effect of maintaining normal levels of blood quality and cholesterol in arteries, peripheral blood vessels and capillaries.

3. Experiments show that 500 mg/kg of ginkgo biloba has a short-term hypotensive effect on rabbits. Ginkgo biphenol has a histamine-releasing effect, causing increased capillary permeability and leading to edema, and this effect is counteracted by chlorpheniramine.

4. Improper dosage and method of eating ginkgo nuts can cause poisoning. Because ginkgo nuts contain hydrocyanic acid toxin, which is highly toxic, it is best to eat 3 to 5 nuts raw. To prevent ginkgo poisoning, the fundamental method is to eat cooked food and eat less.

However, it should be emphasized that even after cooking, the toxins in ginkgo nuts are not completely destroyed, so it is not advisable to eat too much. 10 to 20 pieces each time is appropriate. Moreover, pregnant women and young children should not eat it.