PRODUCTION OF HEALTHY BEVERAGE OF CRUDE MEDICINAL ACTIVE HERBAL ESSENTIAL OIL

摘要

PURPOSE:To produce a healthy beverage of a clear liquid.crude medicinal herbal essential oil intactly containing active ingredients of the crude drugs without any clouding and precipitates by extracting parts readily affected by heat in the crude drugs at ambient temperature, then decocting parts of marcs and extracting the decocted marcs. CONSTITUTION:Ingredients of crude drugs such as Ginseng, Cork tree bark or Licorice are leached with a suitable leaching agent such as methanol or petroleum ether and the solvent is then distilled away to concentrate the leachate. Thereby, an extract agent is prepared. The remaining marcs of the crude drugs are then decocted at a prescribed temperature for a prescribed time, e.g. 70-95 deg.C for 30-90min and the resultant filtrate is added to the aforementioned extract agent. The prepared mixture is subsequently freeze-dried or dry sprayed to provide a dry extract, which is then added to a beverage base.