Heat destroys medicine. This simple truth drives much of the engineering behind the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine.
Many active compounds in herbs are surprisingly fragile. Essential oils begin volatilizing at modest temperatures. Flavonoids can oxidize and degrade. Complex molecules may unravel into different substances entirely. A process that extracts efficiently but damages the extract has failed its purpose. The Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine addresses this challenge directly.
The Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine tackles heat sensitivity through vacuum technology. By reducing pressure inside the concentration chamber of the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine, it lowers the boiling point of liquids. Water that normally boils at 100°C may boil at just 40°C under the vacuum that the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine creates. This allows solvent removal at temperatures that leave heat-sensitive compounds undisturbed.
During the extraction phase, temperature control proves equally important in the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine. The heating jacket of the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine maintains solvent at the optimal temperature for each herb-warm enough to penetrate plant material effectively, cool enough to preserve the compounds being extracted. Sensors throughout the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine feed data to the control system, which adjusts heating elements continuously.
For herbs with exceptionally delicate constituents, operators can program the Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine for ambient-temperature extraction followed by low-temperature concentration. The Herbal Extraction and Concentration Machine thus produces extracts that chemically mirror the original plant as closely as possible.
