Learn about herbal pill dryers used for pills and turmeric pills

Popular herbal pills such as pills, turmeric honey pills… are widely used in oriental medicine. This is a synthetic medicine containing many different herbal ingredients to provide medicinal properties in small, convenient pills. After being prepared, mixed in a certain ratio, the pills are rolled into balls and dried at a suitable temperature. In this article, we will learn about the pill dryer commonly used today.

Suitable drying temperature for pills.

Pills are synthetic pills made from many different herbs, each herb will provide certain effects, so pills in oriental medicine always have many healing effects. On the other hand, pills have the advantage of quickly absorbing medicinal properties into the body because the medicinal herbs have been crushed into fine powder or refined starch to put into the pills. Therefore, pills need to be dried to ensure good dryness on a suitable pill dryer, low drying temperature helps the pills retain their healing effects.

Currently on the market, there are many establishments producing pills such as pills, turmeric pills… using civil dryers with a drying temperature range of 35 – 95^oC, in which drying at 50 – 60^oC is usually the most suitable. In general, the lower the drying temperature for pills and medicinal herbs in general, the better, the better to keep the healing effects at the best level.

Which type of tablet dryer to use?

With the above information about tablet drying temperature, we can choose 1 of 2 types of dryers that Mactech advises in this content. Choosing which type of machine depends on the specific requirements of the product, high or very high, color, standard assessment level and investment level of the manufacturing unit.

Here is a deeper analysis for customers to understand and choose appropriately:

• Circulating Hot air dryers or also known as medicinal dryers are commonly used today, Mactech company has many sizes of tablet dryers from 10kg, 50kg to 500kg of fresh materials, meeting many production scales for current oriental medicine production facilities. This is the most popular dryer line today with a drying temperature range of 40 – 95^oC, not only suitable for drying medicinal herbs (40 – 60^oC) but also suitable for many other popular drying products such as fruits, foods, fish, dried meat.
• The cold dryer is a more advanced machine that Mactech wants to introduce to customers for drying tablets or similar drugs, especially in the field of medicinal herbs, using freeze drying will bring higher quality, more beautiful colors. The drying temperature from 10 – 40^oC is very suitable for drying medicinal herbs, especially for drugs that easily lose their medicinal properties when exposed to high temperatures. However, the price of the machine is quite high, so customers need to contact for detailed advice.

Through the above information, readers have learned more about the popular types of tablet dryers and are suitable for production scales. Please contact Mactech for more detailed advice on each type of dryer, which machine to use and how to dry. Thank you for referring to the information.