Method for making herbal extracts using percolation
OwnerEarle C. Sweetinventor
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Abstract
The method for making herbal extracts entails continuously percolating a solvent through a bed of herbaceous material in the vessel at a temperature between room temperature and about 60° C. to produce an extract having active principles contained in the herbaceous material. The thus produced extract is highly concentrated and contains a large proportion of the active principles in the raw material, and can be used in lower unit doses to provide enhanced medicinal treatment. The solvent is a mixture of distilled water and catalyst altered water. The mixture enhances the extraction of the active principles for improved treatment, and improves the quality and processing of the extract.
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In a method of extracting active principles from a herbal material using percolation by passing an amount of a solvent through a bed of herbal material contained in a vessel to form a liquid extract, whereby the liquid extract is recirculated through the bed of herbal material for a period of time while maintaining the bed of herbal material and recirculating liquid extract at an elevated temperature between room temperature and up to 60° C., and then recovered as a final liquid extract containing an increased level of active principles, the improvement comprising providing a mixture of at least distilled water and an effective amount of catalyst altered water for improving the extraction as at least part of the amount of solvent.
In a method of extracting active principles from a herbal material using cold percolation by passing an amount of a solvent through a bed of herbal material contained in a vessel to form a liquid extract, whereby the liquid extract is recirculated through the bed of herbal material for a period of time while maintaining the bed of herbal material and recirculating liquid extract at an elevated temperature between room temperature and up to 60° C., and then recovered as a final liquid extract containing an increased level of active principles, the improvement comprising providing a mixture of at least distilled water and an effective amount of catalyst altered water for improving extraction as at least part of the amount of solvent, wherein the concentration of the catalyst altered water in the distilled water ranges between 5 and 200 ml of catalyst altered water per 4 liters of distilled water.
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