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What is Citrus Aurantium extract?
Citrus aurantium, also known as Bitter Orange or Seville Orange, is a plant used for medicinal purposes in China, South America, India and North America. The leaves, flowers, DRIED FRUIT and dried peel are all used for aiding stomach ailments, constipation and supporting the nervous system. Currently, citrus aurantium is used in many weight loss products.
Citrus aurantium is the Latin or medical term for a spiny, evergreen citrus tree that produces a fruit commonly referred to as bitter orange. The term may refer to the fruit itself or the dietary supplement that's derived from the fruit's extract. People also refer to bitter orange as bigarade orange, Seville orange or sour orange. The ancient Chinese are often cited as the earliest users of bitter orange; using it for gastrointestinal ailments, they called the fruit Zhi shi.
Benefits of taking Citrus Aurantium extract:
In recent years, citrus Aurantium has become a popular ingredient in various weight loss supplements because of synephrine. Citrus aurantium contains the alkaloid synephrine, which is a central nervous system stimulant and is used as a thermogenic fat burner.
1) As a dietary supplement designed to support calorie burning (thermogenesis) and resulting weight loss.
2) It also helps to clean the blood and has been reported to dissolve kidney stones.
3) Synephrine is a stimulant, similar to caffeine and ephedrine, it is thought to have similar effects in terms of providing an energy boost, suppressing appetite and increasing metabolic rate and caloric expenditure. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), zhi shi is used to help stimulate the Qi (energy force). Although synephrine and several other compounds found in zhi shi are structurally similar to ephedrine and are known to act as stimulants (via adrenergic activity), zhi shi does not appear to have the same negative central nervous effects of ma huang.