Do Chinese medicinal materials need to be dried before crushing? |
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2024-2-26 publish |
Do Chinese medicinal materials need to be dried before crushing?
Many Chinese medicines need to be dried before the use of Chinese medicine shredder to crush, and the conditions can be dried with an incubator below 60 degrees, not scorched! Dry it outdoors in fine weather. Such as ophiopogon, aspiopogon, cooked ground, wolfberry, big cloud, jujube peel, longan, jujube and so on these sugar-containing heavy Chinese medicine, need to be dried and dried first, and then mixed with other drugs powder.
First of all, Chinese medicinal materials as medicinal plants, in the process of storage after harvesting, slightly careless often appear mildew, moth, discoloration and other phenomena, not easy to save, can not meet clinical needs, so Chinese medicinal materials after picking back is needed to dry treatment, if not dry, then the above phenomenon will occur.
Secondly, the Chinese medicine crusher has high requirements for the water content of Chinese herbs, if the finer the fineness of the crushing, you need to strictly control the water content of the medicinal materials. If the water content of medicinal materials is large, the crushing effect will be poor when the Chinese medicine grinder is used for grinding, resulting in a decrease in output, and may also cause the blockage of the equipment, affecting the normal use of the equipment.
Finally, grinding powder after drying is also conducive to the storage of powder. After drying, the medicinal materials are ground to make the enzymes contained in them lose activity, prevent mildew, easy to preserve, and do not deteriorate for a long time. Especially some active medicinal materials, such as white lentil seed medicinal materials, red bean and so on
To sum up, Chinese medicinal materials need to be dried before crushing. The specific method can be natural drying, that is, drying in full sunlight, simple and convenient, low cost, good effect, and a large number of medicinal materials drying processing is not limited by the site. There are conditions can use a special medicinal material dryer for drying treatment, the specific method to take, the user can choose according to their own situation.
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