The Spring Equinox is a very special festival. It symbolizes the beginning of life and hope. Looking ahead to 2023, the industry is expected that this year will be related to biomedicine, biomedical engineering, synthetic biotechnology, intelligent technology and other technical fields of research and development achievements will continue to emerge and transform landing, at the same time, this year will also be an important year for the development of China's biomedicine, biomedical engineering enterprises.
What are hollow capsules?
Capsules are a common form of preparation. Hollow capsules are the outer shell of capsules, which are widely used in medicine, health products and nutritional supplements.
Easy to swallow：Hollow capsule shape is long cylindrical, small size, easy to swallow, especially suitable for bad taste or oral drugs.
Suitable for various substances：Hollow capsules can be loaded into a variety of powder, particles, liquid and other substances, not limited by the nature of the material, with high adaptability.
Strong protection：Hollow capsules can effectively protect drugs, avoid drugs being oxidized, decomposed, wet, etc., improve drug stability and bioavailability.
The raw material for hollow capsules
Hollow capsule according to the composition can be divided into animal hollow capsule and plant hollow capsule. At present, more than 95% of the capsules used in China are animal hollow capsules made of medicinal gelatin. In 2012, there was an incident in which some companies mixed industrial gelatin into raw materials, resulting in the production of hollow capsules containing the heavy metal chromium exceeding the legal limit by up to 90 times.。
The raw materials of animal capsules are complicated, difficult to control the quality, and there are many insurmountable defects in performance and safety. In order to solve these problems of traditional gelatin capsules, plant-derived capsule products have gradually become the mainstream. In 1997, Pfizer was the first to market in the United States hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose hollow capsule VcapsTM and Pullulan polysaccharide two plant capsules. Since then, Japan, Austria and Korea have successfully developed plant-based capsules using seaweed and corn starch as raw materials.
Advantages of plant hollow capsules
Plant Hollow capsule raw materials from potato starch and seaweed polysaccharides, pure natural plants, can meet the needs of vegetarian culture and religious people. In the production process, do not add any harmful substances, no environmental pollution, so our plant capsule production enterprise is called "zero emission" enterprise. The water content of plant hollow capsules can be as low as 3-6%, and the molecular structure is stable, avoiding the transfer of water in the capsule to drugs. The capsule is not brittle under low humidity conditions, but can still maintain the stability of the capsule under high humidity conditions. Its storage conditions are wide, between the temperature of 10-40℃, humidity between 35-65%, will not soften deformation or hardening brittle, valid for up to 36 months.
Plant hollow capsules are widely used in medicine, health products and nutritional supplements, including the filling of traditional Chinese medicine preparations and biological preparations. With the continuous increase of consumers' health awareness and the pursuit of quality of life, plant capsules meet the needs of vegetarian culture and religious groups. In recent two years, the market share of plant capsules in Europe and the United States is growing rapidly.
Spring Equinox, a solar term full of hope and vitality. It signals the end of winter and the beginning of spring, a good time for everything to come back to life. In this beautiful day, Tsuen Jikang stick to the original intention, in order to help China's medical and health industry upgrading to have been, is committed to creating the domestic plant hollow capsule brand benchmark.
