Shanghai develops new packaging for traditional Chinese medicine tablet

Chinese medicine tablets will wear new "clothes"

Evening News reported that regular middle-aged citizens who regularly take traditional Chinese medicine tablets such as Danshen Tablets, Daning Tablets, Shouwu Tablets, etc., always have such an experience: When medicines are put for a long time, a layer of sugar coating on the outside of the tablets is easy to absorb moisture, Fading, cracking, and even causing the tablets to spoil.

The reporter learned from the National (Shanghai) TCM Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology Center that the new Chinese medicine coating developed by the center with independent intellectual property rights will come out of the laboratory of Zhangjiang and all the Shanghai-made tablet tablets will soon be replaced by durable ones.” Newly installed."

Traditional icing defects

According to Professor Shen Ping, director of the center, traditional Chinese medicine tablets are coated with icing, which not only has the disadvantages of easily absorbing moisture, discoloration, and cracking, but also increases the weight by 70% after icing on a medicine packet. A big obstacle. In addition, the powdered sugar and talcum powder contained in the icing will be of no benefit to middle-aged and diabetic patients. Therefore, developed countries have been studying new technologies for film coating in recent years. More than 95% of Western medicines produced in Europe and America have been coated with new technologies and new materials to achieve resistance to moisture, light, taste, enteric and so on. effect.

Imported coating "does not accept water and soil"

For this reason, some pharmaceutical companies in China have imported coating preparations from abroad. However, because the composition of Chinese medicine tablets is complex and non-targeted, the imported coating technology of “wild” in western medicine is somewhat “unsatisfied” in the country. In order to overcome the problem of the coating of Chinese medicine tablets, the National Pharmaceutical Engineering Center of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, after many years of experimentation, extracted a polymer fiber material from cotton and other plant fibers, and after resynthesis, developed a new film coating “New Phil ".

Upcoming "full coverage"

According to reports, "New Phil" has the characteristics of uniform color, moisture, cracking, anti-volatility, anti-discoloration, etc., can extend the shelf life of more than double the drug. After the Chinese medicine is wrapped, the weight only increases by 5%, and the cost of materials is also much lower than that of imported technology. This product technology was recently rated as 2005 Famous Brand Product by the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Industry. It will soon achieve “full coverage” of proprietary Chinese medicines in the famous Chinese medicine companies of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group (Lei Yun Shang), Wuhan, Guilin, and Guangxi.

Source: News Evening News