First of all, it is clear that the color of capsule shell mainly plays the role of beauty and recognition, and has nothing to do with the drug itself. Does not help to play a pharmacological role!

Composition and Function of Color capsule shell The pigments in capsule shell are food pigments, including carmine, amaranth, lemon yellow, olive green and so on. The pigment additives in capsule shell are all medical pigment additives stipulated by the state, which are harmless to human body. Don't worry!

What color to use is the manufacturer's decision! Coloring capsules has two main functions:

1, which looks good in sense, can cover up the appearance of the drug itself. Of course, some colorists insist that some colors can help patients with different diseases and help them with psychotherapy. Bian Xiao thinks this kind of assistance is really negligible.

2, different colors, just to simply distinguish drugs, the purpose is to facilitate identification.

3, shading, used as sunscreen. For example, for some light-sensitive drugs, titanium dioxide can be added into capsules as a sunscreen. This will develop color.

Capsule ingredients and poison capsules The main ingredients of event capsules are generally gelatin or vegetable starch. In addition to the main ingredients, other auxiliary materials, such as colorants and sunscreens, are added to the capsules. Therefore, the 20 12 poison capsule incident is frightening. They actually used leather waste to make industrial gelatin and medicinal capsules, which flowed into pharmaceutical enterprises.

Other knowledge about capsules: capsules can be divided into hard capsules, soft capsules (soft capsules) and enteric capsules. , mainly used for oral administration.

Use the function of the capsule itself:

1, which has little drug irritation to esophagus and gastric mucosa.

2, cover up the bad taste of drugs, which is convenient for some powdered drugs to swallow.

3. Protect the medicinal properties of drugs from oral saliva and other factors.

4, enteric: Some drugs need to be dissolved and absorbed in the intestine, so capsules protect drugs from being destroyed by stomach acid.

Note that capsules are generally not allowed to be taken open! Some friends even think that capsule shell is not safe, so they will throw away capsule shell and only eat the medicine inside. This is all wet! The regulatory authorities in China have been strictly controlling the production and circulation of drugs. I believe that the exposure of the poison capsule incident will not happen again!

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