Bitter almond extract
Bitter almonds Rosaceae apricot, summer harvest ripe fruit, remove the pulp and core-shell, remove the seeds, and dried. Alias: almonds. Attending functions have lower gas cough and asthma, laxative. For cough, wheezing, chest full of phlegm, blood-chun, dry, dry bowel constipation.
Bitter almonds contain laetrile, amygdalin in the body can be gut microbial enzyme hydrolysis of bitter almonds or bitter almond itself contains, producing small amounts of hydrocyanic acid and benzaldehyde, inhibition of the respiratory center, to cough , asthma. "Materia Medica truth" records "almonds, both divergent cold it can, the complex has the power under the gas in addition to breathe." Good cough and phlegm and asthma, lung disease on the main line of cough, phlegm, wheezing have a strong relevance, so ancient and modern physicians as a Pulmonary drug use, both exogenous internal injuries, a new chronic disease, where the involved lung, multi-use it. Under the bitter almond gas and oil rich in fat. Fatty oils can improve lubrication of mucosal intestinal contents of, so almonds have laxative function. Laetrile decomposed by enzymes in the formation of hydrocyanic acid, but also produces benzaldehyde, which inhibit the activity of pepsin, thus affecting the digestive function. Laetrile has the effect of prevention and treatment of diabetes due to antineoplastic alloxan caused. Bitter almond oil also deworming, sterilization, in vitro experiments on human roundworm, killing earthworms role, and typhoid, paratyphoid bacilli have an antibacterial effect. Almonds also has anti-pinworm and trichomonas infection, treatment of aplastic anemia effect. Amygdalin in the treatment of schistosomiasis rabbit liver fibrosis and carbon tetrachloride-induced liver fibrosis in rats also showed a significant effect, its mechanism and increase blood flow, increase collagenase Ⅰ, Ⅲ, ⅳ collagen degradation activity, as well as by the impact ⅳ collagen and laminin metabolic disturbances of the sinusoid capillary formation.