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What are medicinal capsules made of

In daily life, many medicines are made of Kosher capsule, some can be made into capsules, and some can be made into tablets. Many people are worried that these capsules will cause harm to the human body, and some chronic diseases require long-term medication. In fact, medicinal capsules are edible, but you must choose regular medicines.

Enteric-coated Hollow Capsules

Product introduction: Enteric gelatin hollow capsules are made of gelatin and enteric coating materials.
Product Category: Pharmaceutical Excipients
Product application: It is often used in special packaging for drugs or health care products that are irritating to the stomach or are unstable in the presence of acid, and that need to be dissolved in the intestine and exert their curative effect.
Product function: Intestinal positioning administration, reducing adverse reactions. Targeted fixed-point release: no disintegration and no cracks in gastric juice for two hours, and drug release in intestinal juice within 30 minutes, providing a perfect solution for protein polypeptide drugs and live bacteria preparations.
Product advantages: Intestinal-targeted drug delivery can improve drug efficacy and reduce dosage, and at the same time, it can reduce adverse reactions and facilitate the use of patients; it can also avoid the degradation of oral protein polypeptide drugs or health care products, providing the best absorption site for drugs.

Gelatin is widely used in many foods. In food, gelatin can make food solidify, thicken, stabilize and ventilate. It is also a popular food composition rich in nutrients and low in fat. Production of soft capsules, capsules are made of pharmaceutical grade gelatin, which is suitable for the strict requirements of pharmaceutical products.
Hollow capsule shell specifications, then the gelatin film dries and hardens to synthesize the capsule, which is then removed from the mold.
Generally, there are two kinds of plastic molds, one is for producing capsule body, and the other is for producing capsule cap with larger diameter. The disintegration time limit of the hard capsule refers to the time required for the hard capsule to disintegrate into granules under the excipient packaging material, and the hard capsule and the packaged medicine pass the inspection method.
The disintegration time of the hard capsule determines how long the drug can be absorbed by the body. The use of empty capsule shells and the disintegration time limit of hard capsules are mandatory inspections for many capsule preparations before inspection by relevant departments.
Gelatin is a water-soluble protein derived from collagen, the main natural protein in connective tissue. Gelatin is extracted from animal skin and bones through a controlled rendering process. There are many types of gelatin.