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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 28 May 2006 07:23 GMT

I used to take gingko pills made by 21st Century. Each tablet contains
500mg of ginkgo leaf and is recommended as a daily intake. Lately, I
could not buy this med any more in HK for whatever silly reasons and
have to change to the ones made by Jamieson of Canada. This new brand
product contains 2000 mg of leaf in each pill and 24% of
flavoglycosides/40 mg. The manufacturer recommends 3 pills daily.

What is the difference? Does it mean each pill made by 21st Century is
equivalent to 3 pills in content made by Jamieson?

Anyone can answer this question?

TKS

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R. Pierce Butler - 28 May 2006 07:37 GMT

fyfpoon@gmail.com wrote in news:1148797421.454481.142800@
38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> I used to take gingko pills made by 21st Century. Each tablet contains
> 500mg of ginkgo leaf and is recommended as a daily intake. Lately, I
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>
> TKS

I would ask in misc.health.alternative

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just Ed - 29 May 2006 14:50 GMT

> I used to take gingko pills made by 21st Century. Each tablet contains
> 500mg of ginkgo leaf and is recommended as a daily intake. Lately, I
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>
> TKS

As you can see from the Jamieson info:
http://www.jamiesonvitamins.com/product_item.asp?id=10
their ginkgo product is a 50:1 concentration, 40 mg of extract
from 2000 mg of leaf.

If the extraction process gets all of the beneficial content then
one Jamieson pill is equivalent to 4 pills in content made by
21st Century.

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k. c. putnam - 30 May 2006 01:56 GMT

> I used to take gingko pills made by 21st Century. Each tablet contains
> 500mg of ginkgo leaf and is recommended as a daily intake. Lately, I
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> TKS

Is Gingko a medicine or a fad?

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