How to Dry and Process Medicinal Plants Leaves?

Being given so many medicinal values of medicinal plants since its flowers, stems and leaves  can be well used. So how do we process this plant? After the harvest of medicinal plants, in order to ensure the taste, reduce the anxiety which is brought by the medicinal plants. Generally, it needs to be dried carefully.

Drying can extract the unnecessary ingredients of medicinal plants, and it also can extend the retention of medicinal plants. 

• First of all, we need to find a roomwith low temperature and dark, which is similar to the growth tent. The target is to narrow the space, and it is conducive to control indoor temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions. The temperature in the room is about 18 degrees, and the humidity is about 60%, so this environment can guarantee the quality of medicinal plants. In order to effectively control the environment, we can put a thermo hygrometer in the room to observe and adjust the indoor environment. We can choose Indoor Humidity Temperature Monitor 2-in-1, which effectively records the current time, temperature and humidity, Simple and portable.

• In addition, we need to keep the airflow and stable, otherwise the mold of medicinal plants will deteriorate and thus get damage, so we also need to regularly check the dry ingress of medicinal plants. Then we can place a fan in this room, which ensures that the medicinal plants is dry evenly and reduces the chance of producing mold on the buds.

• After the external factors were controlled, we thread the bottom end of the medicinal plants together and hung it upside down in the air,then keep it stand for about a week, and what's needed now is patience, and we can control the speed and timing of the drying of the medicinal plants by controlling the speed of the air flow.

Attention: the drying time should not be too short, otherwise it will affect the taste of medicinal plants, medicinal plants completely dry before cutting off its leaves. When cutting off the leaves of medicinal plants, it's best to wear gloves. We suggest to use a scissor to help you to do the cutting stuff. Keep  the scissors clean and dry, then cut off the leaves of medicinal plants. The medicinal plants stem should be brittle at this point, so be especially careful when you are using scissors.

This is how to dry the medicinal plants. You can also choose to put the buds of the medicinal plants in a jar and keep it. If there are some details we didn't mention please tell us. You can contact our editors and leave your comments, we will reply it as that is precious suggestions.

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