She declined chemotherapy and recently began seeing a holistic medicine doctor who prescribed her vitamin B17 500 mg (
amygdalin) tablets.
The newspaper quoted a study which stated that the
amygdalin content of apple seeds was found to be approximately 3 milligrams per gram of seeds (one seed is approximately 0.7gm).
Semi-industrial isolation of salicin and
amygdalin from plant extracts using slow rotary counter-current chromatography.
Bitter almonds contain significant amounts (3 9%) of
amygdalin a diglucoside which releases hydrocyanic acid and benzaldehyde upon enzymatic hydrolysis [17]; bitter almonds are used primarily in the production of flavor extracts [18].
But to Moss' surprise, numerous letters were written in regard to a substance called
amygdalin, or, more popularly, laetrile.
In addition, the mannitol and
amygdalin could be used as carbon sources by Suzhou 08+6 (Table 3).
However, the seeds are supposed to be spitted out, as they contain a substance called
amygdalin, which can release a small amount of hydrogen cyanide when digested.
The cyanogenic glucoside
amygdalin is found in bitter almonds and commonly causes cyanide poisoning.
For example, essential oil of Vernonia
amygdalin (750 mg) repelled the storage-grain pest, Sitophilus zeamais (Motschulsky) (Asawalam & Hassanali 2006), however it was attractive to other weevil, Eurhinus magnificus Gyllenhal (Ulmer et al.
The cyanogenic glycoside
amygdalin does not deter consumption of ripe fruit by cedar waxwings.
The isolates did not utilize citrate; did not produce arginine decarboxylase, hydrogen sulfide, urease, tryptophan deaminase, acetoin, or gelatinase; and did not ferment inositol, L-rhamnose, D-sucrose, D-melibiose, or
amygdalin. All isolates except that from the fantail from Australia (B1086) used p-galactosidase.