The oriental medicine dryer, suitable for drying many types of herbs

Traditional oriental medicine dryer is one of the commonly used equipment in the production of traditional medicine such as cutting, grinding, drying, pilling, packaging machines. The dryer ensures that the drying process of medicinal herbs, medicinal plants, pills… is effective, with good dryness, fast drying time, and the medicinal properties of the medicinal herbs are not affected. Customers should refer to some types of medicinal herb dryers from Mactech for more good choices.

Drying efficiency with oriental medicine

Oriental medicine, herbal medicine, Vietnamese medicine, Chinese medicine… are all common names for medicinal herbs derived from nature and plants. Most of these products need to be dried for immediate use or to process other related medicines such as pills, medicinal extracts, medicinal powders. Drying must ensure basic requirements such as quick drying, sufficient dryness for long-term preservation, and especially important is to preserve the medicinal properties of the medicinal herbs.

After harvesting, medicinal herbs need to be cleaned, cut into pieces or sliced ​​as required, then dried or dried, usually in the past it was dried, currently production facilities all apply the drying method using a specialized oriental medicine dryer to give the best quality. Not only does it preserve the flavor and medicinal properties of the medicine, but it also ensures relative preservation of the color of the product, especially when using a cold dryer to dry medicinal herbs. The product after drying will reach a very high dryness level, can be preserved for a long time, and does not worry about mold.

Types of oriental medicine dryers

Depending on the small or medium scale of production, customers can choose the appropriate dryer, small ones can dry 10kg, 50kg of raw materials, larger ones can use 100kg, 150kg, 200kg or 300kg of various products. In general, in the field of medicinal herb drying, machines under 300kg of raw materials per batch are often used, and there are few large-scale ones.

Oriental oriental medicine, traditional Vietnamese medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine are common, not precious or of high value, the most commonly used Hot air dryer is suitable for many products in practice, from fruits, foods to medicinal herbs. The most suitable temperature for drying oriental medicine is usually from 40^oC to 70^oC, very few medicinal plant products need to be dried at higher temperatures.

A higher-end dryer line is used for high-value products that need to keep their beautiful colors and nutrients better, such as cordyceps, ginseng, lingzhi, medicinal extracts, and medicinal starch. That is the freeze dryer with a drying temperature of 10 to 40 degrees Celsius. This is also a multi-purpose dryer, suitable for both experimental and production drying.

In particular, another type of oriental medicine dryer can be considered when customers need to dry special products with very high value, which need to keep their shape and color intact, such as drying cordyceps without shrinking the mushrooms, drying medicinal extracts without losing nutrients, drying durian to keep the segments intact. That is the freeze dryer, a very high-end drying device with a very high price.

Thus, through the above information, we have a basic understanding of the types of suitable oriental medicine dryers. Please contact Mactech for detailed advice on each type of machine and the most suitable drying method.