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1. What Is the History of Using Medicinal Herb Plant?
A History of the Uses of Herbs
Herbs have been used for many purposes, including as ingredients for medicinal products, beauty enhancers, fragrances and food. In the case of beauty enhancers, the natural com-ponents in herb products are easily absorbed by the human skin and are both safe and compatible with human body, as natural ingredients that have demonstrated no known toxicity. Natural products in skincare formulations have been shown to exhibit significant antioxidant, emollient, and UV–B protection properties. In the early nineteenth century, the first chemical analyses performed by scientists were utilized to determine the active ingredients from plant extracts, which subsequently led to the development of natural (traditional) medicines that had been passed historically through generations by word of mouth. Many of the herbs and spices used for food seasoning also yield useful medicinal compounds. Simple preparation methods for processing the plant herbs by boiling either the entire plant or selected parts of the plant have been employed by herbal medical practitioners for over 5,000 years.
China is the cradleland of using
Medicinal Plant ,more than 12,000 medicinal plant had been recorded and discovered. In ancient China, doctor and pharmacist had already do a lot of research and invention on Medicinal Plant, so nowadays herb medicine is widely used in different kinds of diseases therapy treatment.
In China and other countries who are widely using medicinal plant or herb medicine for diseases treatment gets different herb medicine formulation which includes raw herb slices, herb soup, herb powder, herb pellet, herb paste, herb tablet, herb capsules, herb granules and herb injection medicine, etc. China is the earliest country to do medicinal plant extraction and concentration treatment in the world.
2. What is The Main Concept Of Medicinal Plant Herb Extraction?
Herbal Extraction is the processing way which adopts appropriate solvent or method to separate chemical ingredient from herbal plant.
3. Why People Choose Raw Herbal Extracts but not the Grinded Raw Herbal Powder?
Because Grinded Raw Herbal powder still contains other useless ingredient or ingredient which affect human body. Raw Herbal Extracts has the target ingredient which our human body needs.
4. How Many Main Active Ingredient In Different Medicinal Plant Herbs?
There are too much different Active ingredient in Medicinal Plant Herbs. We summarize it into 15 different kinds of species. They are all contains in herb extraction, Sugars and glycosides, Quinones, Phenylpropanoids, Flavonoids, Tanning, Terpenoids, Essential Oil, Volatile Oil, Steroids, Saponins, Alkaloids, Organic Acids, Plant Colorants, Amino/Enzyme/Protein, lipid and Wax, Inorganic ingredient,etc. All Above ingredient can be extracted by proper method from Herb extraction machine.
5. What Affects Herb Extraction Process on Extract Active Ingredient from Medicinal Plant?
There are three main factors main affect herbal extraction result, Extraction Solvent, Extraction Temperature, Extraction Pressure. Sometimes processing method will also affect herbal extraction result.
6. How To Make A Better Herbal Extracts Product?
Before you are going to produce herbal extracts, better to do experimental test first on different extraction solvent, extraction temperature and extraction pressure. Herbal Extraction is all about how we use correct Solvent with correct temperature to Break Plant Cell Wall to make Cell Sap comes out to solvent.
7. Can One Herbal Extraction Machine Working for Different Herbal Product?
Yes, you can use the same Herbal Extraction Machine for extracting different plant, but this is only works for Crude Herbal Extracts. If you need specific ingredient from Herbal Plant, you still need different purification equipment to do the process.
Herbal Extraction Machine
8. Do You Need Filtration Process For your Raw Herbal Extracts?
Yes, Normally raw herbal extracts includes different size particles, for achieving a particle less extract liquid, you need Filtration System before going to liquid evaporation process.
9. What You Need To Prepare Before You Are Going To Start Herb Extraction?
At first you need to know what kind of Medicinal Herbal Plant you are going to process and what finished product you want to get. Then you need to know your loading capacity per day. Then according to Herbal Extraction System size to check the factory room size, The factory is better to have cooling tower system for better cooling down the condenser. Of course, if you are worried on the start up investment, better to choose lab scale equipment first.
10. How Many Operator You need In One Batch Of Herbal Extraction Process?
Normally Herbal Extraction System comes with Manual Control Type and Automatic Control Type. If it is manual control Type, One extraction and concentration System requires 2-3 people for operating and monitoring the system. If it is Fully Automatic Type, Whole system requires one operator is very enough.
Extraction and Concentration Workshop Design
11. How Long Will One Batch Herbal Extraction Process Take?
If you are just taking crude Herbal Extracts, the whole batch takes 6-8 hours only.
12. How Many Different Processing Method of Herbal Extraction?
There total 8 different Standard Medicinal Plant Herbal Extraction Method. They are Solvent Extraction Method, Steam Distillation Method, Super Critical Fluid Extraction Method, Ultra Sonic Extraction Method, Micro Wave Extraction Method, High Pressure Extraction Method, Enzyme Extraction Method, Semi-bionic Extraction Method.
13. How Many Different Processing Method of Herbal Plant Oil Extraction?
There are mainly three different method for Oil Extraction: Cold Press, Heat Boiling Distillation
and Steam Heating Distillation.and Steam Heating Distillation.But nowadays CBD Oil Extraction is very popular, CBD oil extraction adopts Solvent Extraction Method for achieving Final CBD oil.