Bitter Melon Extract 10% Total Saponins

The plant bitter gourd belongs to the cucurbit family and is known by the name of bitter gourd. Bitter melon is grown in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of East Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America, where it is used as both food and medicine. 

It produces beautiful flowers and prickly fruit. 

The fruit of this plant lives up to its name - it tastes bitter. While the seeds, leaves, and vines of bitter gourd are all available, its fruit is the safest and most widely used of the medicinal parts of the plant. 

The sap and fruit or seeds of its leaves are used as an insect repellant; in Brazil it is used as a repellent in doses of 2 to 3 seeds. 

The immature fruit of bitter gourd is more bitter due to its content of bitter melon. Momordica is mainly composed of various triterpenoids, including Momordica glucosides A-E, K, L and momardicius I, II and III. The roots and fruit are used as an abortifacient.

The efficacy and role of Bitter Melon Extract 10% Total Saponins：

Hypoglycemic effect

Anti-fertility effect

Abortion

Anticancer effect

Influence on immune function

Antibacterial effect

Suppresses HIV

Bitter melon also has high medicinal value. Li Shizhen, an ancient Chinese physician, said: "Bitter melon is bitter and non-toxic, reduces pathogenic heat, relieves fatigue, clears the mind and eyesight, and invigorates qi and strengthens yang." 

Heat, improve eyesight and stop dysentery, cool blood and detoxify. In recent years, American scientists have discovered that bitter gourd contains a certain physiologically active protein, which can be injected into animals to drive animal immune cells to destroy cancer cells. 

Chinese scientists also isolated insulin 23 from bitter melon, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect and is an ideal food for diabetic patients.