When making soup, put 20 grams of southern almonds and 10 grams of northern almonds, the most appropriate.

North almonds, also known as bitter almonds, can relieve cough and phlegm, laxative effect of the small poison, so it is best to remove the tip of the skin.

South almonds, also known as sweet almonds, south apricot, dedicated to food, rich in protein, vegetable fats, moisturizing and tonic lungs and nourishing the skin. If used for coughing, to the north of the almonds into the medicine, and the south almonds are not generally used for medicinal purposes.

North almonds play a key role in the pharmacology of a substance called hydrocyanic acid, which can play a certain role in the respiratory nerve center sedation, with a cough, asthma effect, but with a certain degree of toxicity, only eat twenty or thirty grains can be poisoned, and even fatal.

We usually use the northern almonds, warm fire after frying, remove the outer skin, reduce the bitter taste, but in the amount to be controlled, the amount to be controlled within 10 grams, so as not to overdose injury to the body.

Generally speaking, if you have to make soup, you should not need to worry about, a short period of time to take, it should not be poisoned, the main thing is still the treatment of northern almonds. As long as the tip of the skin is removed, there should be no need to worry.