Method for drying, stabilising, decontaminating and de-infesting medicinal or seasoning plants using a microwave oven

摘要

The use of the microwave oven makes it possible to prepare, from fresh plants, dried medicinal plants which are improved in terms of their appearance, preservation of the colour of the flowers and of the leaves, and their stabilisation, by destruction of their enzymatic systems without a manifest rise in temperature. The tests carried out on seasoning plants and fungi confirm these results as well as for the preparation of herbaria. This simple, rapid and relatively cheap method also offers advantages relating to microbial decontamination and de-infestation of the treated plants.