Mini medicinal dryers, suitable for small and medium facilities

Currently, traditional medicine facilities in big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are widely using mini medicinal dryers specialized in drying medicinal herbs and herbs. Not only drying fresh medicinal herbs but also drying medicinal herbs that have become damp during storage, drying traditional medicinal herbs, pills, starch, homemade turmeric honey pills… very suitable for Eastern and Western medicine facilities.

What temperature should medicinal herbs be dried at?

Mini medicinal herb dryers or multi-purpose medicinal herb dryers currently have a low drying temperature range from 35-95^oC. Users can set different drying modes suitable for different types of products from drying leaves, stems, branches, tubers, starch, pills, cooked herbs, and medicinal extracts. The dryer dries quickly, stabilizes the set temperature, and medicinal herbs are not affected by bad factors such as ultraviolet rays or dust in the air.

The most suitable temperature for drying medicinal herbs is below 60^oC to ensure that the medicinal properties are not changed during the drying process. The picture below shows a customer using a mini medicinal herb dryer to dry Panax notoginseng roots with a batch weight of less than 10kg of fresh materials at a drying temperature of 55^oC, the steam released from the medicinal herbs will be continuously sucked out until reaching the set dryness level. Depending on the different types of heavy and light medicinal herbs, the actual drying weight will be different.

Types of mini medicinal herb dryers.

Mactech currently has some popular mini herbal dryers such as MSD100 and MSD500, suitable for drying under 10kg and under 50kg of various products. These are all heat dryers, in addition, the MSL300 cold dryer is also very suitable for drying medicinal herbs but is often used for high-value medicinal herbs such as drying cordyceps. Depending on the specific requirements of the user, it can be produced according to the desired size.

Above is the image of the MSD100 medicinal herb dryer with a drying capacity of 100 liters and an estimated weight of less than 10kg of fresh materials. The msd100 machine has 6 stainless steel 304 drying trays measuring 30x38cm, which is very suitable for small oriental medicine facilities that need to dry small quantities of different medicinal herbs.

The image above is the MSD500 medicinal herb dryer that allows drying under 50kg of raw materials, with heavy products such as fruits and vegetables, the weight can reach 30-40-50kg. In contrast, with light and bulky products such as medicinal leaves, branches, and stems, the weight can only reach 10-20kg. The machine has low capacity, uses household electricity, 10 stainless steel 304 drying trays measuring 56x63cm, so the machine is used for small and medium-sized medicinal herb drying that is popular today.

So we have learned about some popular mini medicinal herb dryers today, for more detailed information, customers should contact Mactech Vietnam directly.