The Origin and Package Design of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The basic packaging of Chinese medicines in the Pharmaceutical Packaging Basic Law is basically the same as the packaging of other articles, but at the same time it has great differences and features. Because Chinese patent medicines generally take ointment, Dan. Pills, powder, tea, oil, and wine, different dosage forms appear. Therefore, there are different needs in the container. On the other hand, most Chinese patent medicines are edible, and they are more elaborate and demanding in terms of hygiene safety and preservation.
With the changes in the society and the requirements of adapting to the market, successful drugs will make relative changes. In the market of Chinese patent medicines, there have been many counterfeit counterfeit and insinuated drugs. Therefore, pharmaceutical companies have invested more resources in packaging. With painstaking efforts, we must do everything possible to increase the complexity to prevent counterfeiting. Inevitably increase packaging costs. During the process, drugs will try different brand-new printing techniques and packaging designs, often leading the way for the packaging of other goods. This is exactly what the industry is not expecting. At the same time, it reflects the seriousness of counterfeit counterfeit medicines. In view of the actual needs, the Chinese medicine packaging layer (garment) has different functions. In this respect, it can be roughly divided into four items as follows:

1. Keep the drug free from contamination and protection, avoid exposure to moisture, generate alienation, and prepare for long-term preservation. The traditional wax shell is playing such a role.
2. With different dosage forms, it is necessary to dress in different containers. The container itself does not require chemical changes with the drug, affecting drug efficacy and safety.
3. The aspect of carrying is one of the requirements of proprietary Chinese medicines, light and easy to open even more necessary. With boxes, big boxes, small boxes, small packages and other packaging, it is easy for business operators to calculate and facilitate export sales.
4. External type. Different packaging elements such as design and printing allow consumers to distinguish different drug types and identify each brand. The exquisite packaging can also increase the sales of the product and enhance the acceptance of the own brand.

two. The book is from the ointment. pill. Drug dispersion. Medicinal tea. Medicine oil, etc. to introduce the different types of proprietary Chinese medicines.
1. Cream is a solid dosage form that appears after cooking and then cold cutting in different Chinese medicines. The color is mostly dark brown or black, and the smell is intense. When it is hot, it becomes soft and has a strong stickiness. Therefore, it is mostly used as external medicine. . Normally cooked paste will be poured in an amount that has not been completely cooled down to a previously cut square shape or leather. Now more than a wax paper or plastic paper replaced, until it is cooled and solidified into paste posts, folded before packing into the bag.
2. Since ancient times, Dan has instantly thought of a panacea with a strong mysticism. In ancient times, traditional medicine has always been associated with alchemy. The modern so-called Dan is just a name for the dexterous name, Dandai Pill, and others have the illusion of panacea, purely for market strategy, sometimes small pills can also be called Dan.
3. Pills are the most common dosage forms in traditional Chinese medicines and are generally divided into large pills and small pills. Large ones are like eggs, and others are like needles. Mainly in oral medicine, mild medicine, after serving slowly dissolved in the stomach and absorb, and water. Honey is a synthetic agent for the manufacture of pills. During the process, different powders are glued together.
4. Powdered dosage form, easily dissolved in water, absorbed by the body, rapid drug effect. In baby medicine, it is especially common. Powders are mostly contained in small bottles or packed in paper and placed directly in the mouth to add water.
5. Teas are all reminiscent of Guangdong herbal tea. In fact, in addition to the daily reference to tea, it is a combination of raw herbs to fry medicine, for direct drinking, diuresis, diarrhea, stomach, antipyretic effect. Common traditional herbal tea can be divided into two types of traditional bitter and sweet, suffering from twenty-four taste, water Weng flowers, etc., and sweet as Wuhuacha. Silver chrysanthemum. Fire hemp. Bamboo cane water. Always called herbal tea.
6. Oil is a volatile liquid formulation, mainly used for external hemorrhoids, medicinal oils are strong smell, refreshing stimulating effect. General attending dizziness, headache, mosquito bite. Stop marks itching, etc.
7. The so-called wine is the drug is soaked with rice wine for a period of time, so that the soluble ingredients in the drug release in wine, for medicine for physical use.