The process is as follows:
1. Dry the drugs in the formula (stir-fry or not, depending on the nature of the drugs, volatile drugs are not allowed to stir-fry, so as to avoid the volatilization of effective components and reduce the curative effect). The finer the grinding, the better. Spare.
2. Prepare honey according to the ratio of powder weight 1: 1.5, such as 1000g powder, 1500g honey. If there are more sugar, gum and starch in the medicinal materials, the ratio is 1: 1 ~ 1.2.
3, honey refining, first use strong fire, boil and then change to slow fire. Drugstores also sell refined honey.
4. According to the ingredients of the pills, they are boiled into old honey, medium honey and tender honey. That is to say, the herbs are mainly grass roots and bark, and the fiber is not easy to bond with old honey (but it is definitely not "dripping into beads", which has exceeded the bonding degree of old honey, and the pills made are hard and difficult to take). Tender honey is used in medicinal materials, which contains sugar, gum or starch and is easy to bond. Chinese honey has moderate ingredients, and most honey pills are made of Chinese honey. The judgment of old honey, medium honey and tender honey is often called "watching the fire color". How to master it will be announced tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. But if you don't master it well, the quality of the pills made is not high.
The degree of honey refining is divided into tender honey, refined honey and aged honey:
Tender honey When tender honey is heated to boiling, the temperature reaches1/kloc-0 ~114 degrees, the color changes dark and sticky, and the water loss is about 3%. Suitable for prescriptions containing more fat, starch, mucus, sugar and animal tissues.
In honey refining, the tender honey is heated continuously, and the temperature reaches1116℃, and a reddish and shiny foam appears, which has a high viscosity by hand, but there is no white silk, and the water loss is about 13%. It is used in formulas containing fiber, starch, sugar and some oil.
Old honey is heated to reddish brown with a red luster. It's sticky with your hands and you can pull out white silk. Honey temperature reaches 1 18 ~ 122 degrees. Suitable for prescriptions containing a lot of cellulose and minerals.
Refining honey (pay attention to the old and tender)
5. Adjust drugs. Pour the boiled honey into the medicinal powder in the basin with a spoon, and at the same time, use thick bamboo chopsticks to stir in circles in the basin. Just like adding water and flour before wrapping jiaozi, stir the medicinal powder while pouring honey, so that honey can be stopped when the dry medicinal powder is basically invisible, but not too much. If there is too much honey, meatballs are not easy to form. If you don't have a good grasp of the total amount of honey at first, you can remedy it according to the dry humidity of the powder when you adjust the honey. After adjustment, rub it into a ball in the basin with sterilized hands.
mix
Must be thoroughly mixed.
6, strips, pills. You can apply a little sesame oil to your palm (using a disinfection knife and chopping board) and pills to make the medicine glow for a long time. If each grain weighs 10g and a material weighs 3000g, 300 grains are made. The blended pill can be divided into three pieces, and each piece is divided into five small pieces. After kneading each piece, cut it into 20 segments according to the scale engraved on the chopping board, and knead one pill for each segment.
7, strip blank production
7. packaging. Prepare non-toxic plastic films (leather paper or beeswax used in the past), each about 10X 10cm. Each pill is wrapped in a film, so there is no need to "dry in the shade". Then use disinfection equipment to store it for later use.
Pelletizing process:
Prescription-drug selection (high quality)-cleaning-drying-powdering (two-layer thickness)-mixing-sterilization-mixing-pulping-rubbing-pelletizing-air drying (which can be placed in a low-temperature disinfection cabinet to reduce the chance of dyeing)-packaging.
Don't pack until you sweat and harden your appearance.
From: Brother Gui Zhi? & gt Traditional Chinese Medicine, Formula and Health Care