Basic Information  

1.Name: bitter almond extract

2.Synonym: amygdalin amygdalin amygdalin vitamin B17

3.Latin name: Semen Armeniacae Amarum P.E.

4.Sources: Rosaceae plant peach seed, almond seed, apricot seeds, Li Mei seed, seed kernel, whitethorn, Tianshan Mountain pepper. Bark, loquat seeds and so on.

5.Functions: it has good relieving cough and asthma, Runchang laxative effect. Used for cough and asthma, chest full of phlegm, blood and body fluid dry, hot dry constipation.

6.Appearance: three hydrate as orthorhombic columnar crystal (water)

7.Specifications: 1%~98% 10:1, the proportion of the products

8.Mesh: 80

9.Analysis methods: HPLC

10.Solubility: soluble in water, ethanol

11.CAS NO:29883-15-6

12.Molecular formula: C20H27NO11

13.Tropism of taste: lukewarm; suffering; lung, large intestine; small poison                                                               

Amygdalin (Vitamin B17) (from the Greek word for 'almond') is a substance found in the seeds of many kinds of fruits, such as plums, cherries, oranges, nectarines, apples and peaches, as well as in raw nuts, including bitter almonds. Apricots contain a particularly large amount of Vitamin B17 (amygdalin), and it's also abundant in plants such as clover, lima beans, millet, mung bean sprouts and sorghum. These are all highly nutritious foods with chemical contents that provide an excellent range of important benefits for the human body. As a result, many people have begun to call amygdalin 'vitamin B17'.

 Main Function

1.Bitter almond oil fat contained in the skin cuticle softening, moistening skin, blood vessels and nerve endings to protect the role of tissues and organs, and can kill bacteria. In addition, by enzymatic hydrolysis of HCN generated in vivo to inhibit tyrosinase activity, eliminating pigmentation, freckles, dark spots, so as to achieve the effect of beauty.

2.Large almonds can significantly reduce high blood lipid levels in patients, Spiller (1990 year) that the almonds in monounsaturated fatty acids help lower blood lipids in patients with mildly elevated, and without strict dietary restrictions.

3.Amygdalin decomposition static benzoin condensation of benzaldehyde synthase reacts benzoin. Benzoin has analgesic effect, so someone with a bitter almond domestic treatment of advanced liver cancer can relieve the patient's pain, and some even do not need to take painkillers.

4.Under the gas bitter almonds, and rich in fatty oil. Fatty oil can improve the intestinal contents of the mucous membranes of the lubricating effect, it is the function of almonds a laxative.

5.Bitter Almonds contain amygdalin, laetrile intestinal microbial enzymes in the body that can be bitter almonds or almond itself contains enzymatic hydrolysis to produce small amounts of hydrocyanic acid and benzaldehyde, inhibition of the respiratory center, achieve antitussive, antiasthmatic effects.

6.Amygdalin has control because antineoplastic A urea-induced diabetic effect.

7.Amygdalin has anti-mutagenic effects, bitter almond oil and deworming, sterilization, in vitro tests on human roundworm, earthworms are killing effect and typhoid, paratyphoid bacilli have an antibacterial effect. Almonds also has anti-pinworm and trichomonas infection, treatment of aplastic anemia effect.

Application

1. Bitter Apricot Seed P.E. can be applied in pharmaceutical field, amygdalin is used as medicine to anti-cancer and tumor;

2. Bitter Apricot Seed P.E. can be applied in cosmetic field, amygdalin can eliminate pigmentation, freckles, dark spots;

3. Bitter Apricot Seed P.E. can be applied in mygdalin also can be used as dietary supplement and food additive.