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Pills handmade process

Service: Preparation, Pills, Category: Clinical Pharmacy

The process is as follows:

1, will be formulated to dry the drug (fried or sun screen, depending on the nature of the drug to decide, with the volatile drugs can not be fried, so as not to volatilize the active ingredients to reduce the efficacy of treatment). After grinding powder, the finer the better. Standby.

2, the weight of the powder according to the ratio of 1:1.5 ready honey, such as 1000g powder, ready 1500g honey. Medicine in the sugar, gum, starch more, then 1:1 ~ 1.2 can be.

3, simmering honey, the first with a fire, after boiling into a slow simmering fire. Pharmacies also have refined honey can be sold.

4, according to the composition of the pill ingredients, were boiled for the old honey, honey, young honey. That is, the raw materials to grass roots, bark-based, fibers are not easy to bond with the old honey (but definitely not a "drop of water into a bead", that is more than the old honey bonding, made of pills dry and hard hard to serve). The medicinal materials containing sugar or gelatin or starch more easily bonded with young honey. Medium honey is used for the moderate composition of medicinal materials, and most of the honey pills are made with medium honey. The old honey, honey, young honey judgment, used to say "see the color of the fire", how to master, to be tomorrow and the day after another article. But if the mastery is not good, the pills made on the quality is not high.

The degree of refining honey is divided into tender honey, refining honey, old honey three kinds of:

Tender honey tender honey will be heated to boiling, the temperature reaches 110 ~ 114 degrees, the color becomes darker, there is viscous, the loss of about 3% of water. Applicable by the formula containing more fat, starch, mucus, sugar and containing animal tissue.

Refined honey will continue to heat the tender honey, the temperature reaches 110 ~ 116 degrees, the appearance of light red glossy foam, with the hand flick of the viscosity is strong, but no white silk, loss of about 13% of water, used for preparations containing fibrous, starch, sugar, and part of the oil.

The old honey refining honey continues to heat to brown-red, red gloss, very sticky with the hand, can pull out the white silk, honey temperature of 118 ~ 122 degrees. Applicable to the formula containing a lot of cellulose, minerals.

Refining honey (pay attention to the old and young)

5, adjust the medicine. Will boil good honey with a spoon poured into the pot of powder, while using a thick bamboo chopsticks in the powder into the garden week stirring, like usual dumplings before adding water and noodles, pouring honey while adjusting the powder to basically not see the dry powder to stop adding honey, but can not add too much, honey is not easy to form more pills. If the total amount of honey at the beginning is not well mastered, at this time in the transfer of honey can be based on the dryness and humidity of the powder to remedy. After mixing, use sterilized hands in the basin and for a ball.

Stir to mix

Must be mixed well mixed through

6, rubbing strips, and pills. (with sterilized knives, chopping boards) and pills can be a little sesame oil on the palm to make the long medicine bright. If each pill weighs 10g, a material *** weighing 3000g, to be made into 300. Can be divided into three lumps and good medicine, each lump is divided into 5 small lumps, each small lump rubbing strip, according to the scale has been engraved on the chopping board cut into 20 sections, each section of the rub a pill.

7, the system strip blank

7, packaging. Prepare non-toxic plastic film (used to use leather paper or bee wax), each about 10X10cm size. Each and a pill with a film wrapped in a pill, do not have to make another "dry". And finished with a sterilized instrument storage standby.

Pills production process flow:

Prescription - selection (preparation) of drugs (quality and superior) - washing - drying - powdering (coarse and fine two-way) - mixing - sterilization - with dense - pounding - rubbing - pills - cool and dry (can be placed in a low-temperature sterilizer to reduce the chance of contamination) - packaging.

Waiting for sweating, the appearance of hardening, before packaging

From: Gui Zhi brother ? > "Traditional Chinese Medicine, Formulation, Health Care"