1, usually available in pharmacies;

2, also available in pharmacies of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals;

3, can be searched for and purchased through online shopping platforms.

Bitter almonds, alias: almond. Latin name: Semen Armeniacae Amarum. for the Rosaceae plant mountain apricot, summer harvest mature fruit, remove the pulp and nuclear shell, take out the seeds, dry. The main functions are to lower the qi, cough and asthma, laxative. Used for coughing and wheezing, chest fullness and phlegm, blood deficiency and fluid depletion, intestinal dryness and constipation. Mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi. Almonds are divided into sweet almonds and bitter almonds. Almonds produced in the south of China belong to the sweet almonds (also known as southern almonds), the flavor is slightly sweet, delicate, more for food, but also as raw materials to join the cake, cookies and dishes.