“…That is early recorded in the notable medicine monograph named "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" (Shen Nong's Herbal Classic), an earliest book on materia medica in China, appeared almost more than 2500 years ago. Nowadays, substantial scientific evidence has accumulated to find out that EGb protects against some kinds of neural and vascular damage (Diamond et al, 2000;Maclennan et al, 2002), like cerebral insufficiency , Alzheimer's disease (Le Bars et al, 2002;Smith and Luo, 2003;Andrieu et al, 2008), schizophrenia (Zhang et al, 2001a;Knable, 2002;Maclennan et al, 2002;Doruk et al, 2008). Studies of EGb on schizophrenia treatment were carried out in many countries (McKenna et al, 2001;, especially in China (Zhang et al, 2001a;.…”