The plant Momordica charantia belongs to the family cucuritaceae and is commonly known as bitter melon. Bitter melon grows in tropical and subtropic areas, including parts of East Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America, where it is used as a food as well as a medicine. It produces beautiful flowers and prickly fruit. The fruit of this plant lives up to its name_it tastes bitter. Although the seeds, leaves, and vines of bitter melon have all been used, the fruit is the safest and most prevalent part of the plant used medicinally. The juice of the leaves and fruit or seeds is used as an anthelmintic. In Brazil, the dose for anthelmintic use is two or three seeds. 

Bitter melon extract , also called Momordica charantia or Karela, comes from a fruit that is commonly used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide range of illnesses. For example, it is often recommended by practitioners to regulate a person's blood sugar levels and thereby prevent or treat diabetes. In addition, recent studies have shown that bitter melon extract may fight the growth of breast cancer cells.

Polypeptide-k/Balsampear polypeptide , is a bioactive substance extracted from Balsampear polypeptide, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect and is  a natural health care product. The effect of peptide-p in balsam pear is stronger than that of the hypoglycemic drug "shensudanburea". Momordica charantia polypeptide is a bioactive component extracted from fresh special Momordica charantia seed germ, which is composed of 17 kinds of 166 amino acids and has significant effect on regulating blood glucose.