Overdose of bitter almonds, poisoning can occur, manifested by dizziness, sudden fainting, palpitations, headache, nausea and vomiting, convulsions, coma, cyanosis, dilated pupils, loss of reaction to light, weak and slow pulse, rapid or slow and irregular breathing. If not rescued in time, death can be caused by respiratory failure. Poisoned persons can be rescued by taking apricot bark or apricot root decoction internally, see "apricot bark", "apricot root" article. LD50 of amygdalin: 25g/kg for intravenous injection in rats and mice; 8g/kg for intraperitoneal injection in rats; 0.6g/kg for op in rats; MTD: 3g/kg for intravenous and intramuscular injection in mice, rabbits, and dogs; 0.075g/kg for oral administration; 5g (0.07g/kg) for intravenous injection in humans. Oral ingestion of 55 bitter almonds (about 60g), containing about 1.8g of amygdalin (about 0.024g/kg), can be fatal. Bitter almonds are easily poisoned when taken orally in large quantities. Firstly, it acts on the vomiting, respiratory, vagus and vasomotor centers of the medulla oblongata, causing excitement, followed by coma, convulsions, and then paralysis of the whole central nervous system, and death due to paralysis of the respiratory center. Its toxic mechanism is mainly due to the fact that the hydrocyanic acid contained in almonds reacts easily with the trivalent iron of cytochrome oxidase in the mitochondria to form cytochrome oxidase-cyanogen complex, which inhibits cellular respiration and forms tissue asphyxiation, leading to death. Because the intestinal flora contains β-glucosidase, 600mg/kg of amygdalin was administered orally to normal rats, resulting in death within 2-5 hours. The CN- in the blood reached 2.6-4.5 μg/ml, while the same dose of amygdalin was administered to germ-free mice, and the mice did not die; the CN- in the blood was less than 0.4 μg/ml. This suggests that the intestinal flora is the root cause of the oral toxicity of amygdalin, and its toxicity is about 40-fold greater than that of the static injection. Using Ames method, TA100 strain, S-9, Mix (+), amygdalin was lethal.

Not only almonds, even apricots eaten too much will be poisoned leading to diarrhea

Folk have long been "peach nourishing, apricot hurt, plum tree buried under the dead" proverb

Said "peach nourishing", and called it "Life Peach", because the benefits of peach is well known: peach has a tonic gas, yin and Tsu, laxative effect, especially for the two deficiencies in gas and blood, yellow skin, palpitations, shortness of breath, constipation, amenorrhea, bruises and other symptoms of the people eat more.

In contrast to the "peach", said "apricot hurt, plum tree buried under the dead", on the spot pointed out that "too much food apricot, plum harmful" point of view. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, apricots and plums should not be eaten. According to Chinese medicine, apricot meat is sour, hot, with a small poison. Too much food will hurt the muscles and bones, hook hair old disease, and even fall eyebrow hair loss, affecting eyesight, if the birth, pregnant women and children overfeeding is also very easy to grow sores and boils. At the same time, because of the fresh apricot acidic, overfeeding is not only easy to increase the acid in the stomach to hurt the stomach caused by gastric disease, but also easy to corrode the teeth induced dental caries. Not only eat apricot meat hurt, love to eat fresh almonds friends should also be vigilant: because fresh almonds have bitter, sweet points, and bitter almonds contain a toxic substance "hydrocyanic acid", raw food overdose will be poisoned, and even death. At present, after consulting with a number of experts, although we have not found "plums cause death" theory, but Professor Zhang pointed out that, due to the plum temperature, overfeeding can be caused by brain fever, such as heartburn, fever, hot flashes and sweating and other symptoms. Especially eat plums, remember not to eat with birds, honey, on the contrary, it can damage people's organs, serious people can also cause death. Thus, the folk this statement is not unreasonable.

How to avoid the occurrence of these adverse symptoms? Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine researcher Lu Guangxin pointed out to the reporter, "plums are not sinking poisonous", if not accidentally purchased astringent, bitter, belonging to the plums are not ripe, you can not eat. And for overfeeding injury greater apricot, 3 to 5 per food as appropriate. At the same time, because the "almonds get fire cool", that is, after the fire fried or water fried, toxic substances can be removed, the party appropriate to eat. For friends who love to eat apricots, in addition to control the mouth of gluttony, eat more processed apricots, dried apricots, etc., is the best policy.