Bitter Melon Extract Product Name: bitter melon extract bitter glycosides extract Momordicin extract [English name] Bitter Melon Extract】 【Taste melons, roots, leaves: bitter, cold. [Product Source] from bitter melon fruit. Bitter melon extract (Momordica Charantia Linn.) Cucurbitaceae Momordica annual creeping herb. Bitter gourd stems, branches, petioles and pedicels draped with soft hair, axillary tendrils. Leaves 3-12 cm in diameter, has a 5-7 palmatipartite, lobes oval, serrated outer edge. Spring and summer flowering, hermaphrodite, yellow. Fruit oblong, with a most irregular surface tubercles. Seed hidden in the fleshy fruit among wrapped in a red bag when mature. Bitter origin of tropical Asia, widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. India, Japan and Southeast Asia cultivated a long history, Chinese culture history of about 600 years. Product specifications 10% 10: 1 20: 1】 【Detection UV, TLC [appearance] brown fine powder [the active ingredient] mainly momordicin, other sub-glycoside bitter gourd, energy-clear Lignans, bitter peptides and citrulline and other amino acids. [Product efficacy] 1. Anti-diabetic effects. Bitter melon contains steroidal saponins as momordicin, insulin-like peptides and alkaloids, which gives it hypoglycemic activity. Momordicin stimulate the release of insulin and hinder the formation of glucose in the bloodstream, this feature may be particularly non-insulin dependent diabetes diabetes treatment plays a huge role. The hypoglycemic attributed to two factors: (1) Momordicin - a crystalline substance ethanol extract of bitter melon fruit obtained. Momordicin under control dose of 50mg / kg reduced the total number of test cases 42% rabbit blood sugar. Momordicin shows outside the pancreas and pancreatic effect, and there is a slight cramps and anticholinergic efficacy only. (2) P- insulin (insulin or v-, because it is a plant insulin). Is a large polypeptide configuration in the structure, and pharmacologically similar to bovine insulin. P- insulin by two disulfide-linked polypeptide chains. P- insulin for diabetics subcutaneous and intramuscular administration of having a hypoglycemic effect, the peak effect and bovine insulin two hours after different, appear in 4-8 hours. [Indications] detoxify. For heat stroke, fever, toothache, enteritis, diarrhea, blood in the stool; topical treatment of prickly heat, boils Boil.