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Review about Ginkgo biloba special extract EGb 761 (Ginkgo)
1University of Leipzig, Department of Psychiatry, Liebigstr 22, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany. gertzh@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Current Pharmaceutical Design
|February 3, 2004
Abstract:
Ginkgo biloba extracts (EGb) are well-defined plant extracts. It has several indications as dementia, macula degeneration, tinnitus and winter depression. A review of the current and past literature about older people with Alzheimer's dementia or vascular dementia or age-associated memory impairment treated with Ginkgo biloba extract, reveals that EGb has reproducible effects on cognitive functions in Alzheimer's disease. The drug is well tolerated.