How to ensure the quality of medicinal herbs? The selection of initial processing equipment is very elegant!

"Pharmaceutical Network Technical Article" recently, there are netizens message that the wholesale market of herbal medicine to buy Chinese herbal medicine, open a packet poured out to find a lot of soil added insidethere are still a large number of pesticideheavy and other residual problems of medicinal herbs, "the quality of Chinese medicine should start from the source of cultivation, from the source to start with better, more effective."", as the saying goes, "the source is good, the medicine is good."" it is true that the quality of Chinese medicine needs to be strictly controlled from the sourcethis view has been more and more recognized and valued by Chinese medicine enterprises in recent yearsin this context, some Chinese medicine enterprises through the establishment of standardized production base of Chinese herbal medicine, scientific standard cultivation, and the establishment of a Chinese herbal medicine traceability system, so that consumers can use the medicine at ease;, the establishment of a standardized production base of Chinese herbal medicine is conducive to improving the standardization, scale and industrialization of Chinese herbal medicine technology levelin the context of the rapid development of the chinese medicine industry, the quality and safety of Chinese medicine to the front, many places also encourage support for the standardization of Chinese medicine demonstration base constructionthe author learned that in the process of establishing a demonstration base of standardization of Chinese herbal medicines, it also has strict requirements for production equipment and tools and environment, which requires enterprises to understand and pay attention toindustry sources, in terms of the environment, in accordance with the relevant requirements, the standardized production base environment of Chinese herbal medicine should be in line with the current national standardsinclude: air meets the requirements of the Environmental Air Quality Standard II, soil meets the secondary standards of the Soil Environmental Quality Standard, irrigation water conforms to the "Water Quality Standards for Irrigation of Farmland", and drinking water from primary processing and medicinal animals meets the "Living Drinking Water Hygiene Standards" and so on, the selection and configuration of production equipment and tools of the chinese herbal medicine standardization demonstration base is also very carefulneed to meet the conditions that are easy to operate, clean, maintain, and meet the following requirements: fertilizer, pesticide application equipment, tools should be carefully checked before use, timely cleaning after use;on the initial processing equipment and large-scale production equipment, inspection and testing equipment, it undoubtedly brings opportunities and challenges to the relevant equipment manufacturers, in the stability of equipment, reliability and other aspects have obvious requirementsto the initial processing of drying equipment as an example, Chinese herbs as medicinal plants, in the storage process after harvesting, if not for initial processing, it is very easy to appear mold, insect decay, discoloration and other phenomenadrying technology is an important link in the processing of Chinese herbal medicine, selecting the appropriate drying method can not only extend the shelf life of Chinese herbal medicine products, improve product quality, but also help to further maintain the active ingredients of the drugin the past, the traditional drying methods of Chinese herbal medicine sashimi are generally divided into natural drying and heating dry ingenuity, but the traditional methods are affected by the region, climate and weather, and have certain limitationsWith the rapid development of modern science and technology, the application of modern drying technology such as microwave drying, vacuum freeze drying and heat pump drying can be carried out on the basis of further preserving effective medicinal ingredientsBecause modern drying equipment functions are not the same, different Chinese herbs also need to choose the right equipment for drying, for example, for Chinese herbal medicine tablets, honey pills, water pills and other in the traditional dry Chinese medicine ingredients loss of large light-sensitive materials, microwave drying can play a better drying effect, improve drying efficiency, shorten the drying time, there is a certain insecticidal effect;in recent years, with the promotion of energy conservation and environmental protection policy, primary processing equipment such as drying equipment is also facing new challenges, it is urgent to study new technology, new technology, so that equipment to achieve high efficiency, energy saving, in meeting the requirements of green environmental protection, to ensure the effectiveness of the initial processing of traditional Chinese medicine, and reduce processing costs, to help the chinese medicine industry 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