Which Dropping Pills Can the Automatic Dropping Pill Machine Produce?

1. About the automatic dropping pill machine

The automatic dropping pill machine is an important piece of equipment for the production of traditional Chinese medicine. The remarkable feature of the dropping pill machine is that it can adjust the drug release characteristics by selecting different substrates. In addition, the dropping pill machine boasts simple production, relatively easy to be operated, low production cost, and no dust. So, what kinds of dropping pills can be made by the dropping pill machine?

2. What kind of dropping pills can the dropping pill machine make?

(1) The dropping pill machine can produce the slow-release and controlled-release dropping pill. Slow-release is to make the medicine in the dropping pill slowly dissolve in a long time and achieve a long-term effect; controlled-release is to make the medicine dissolve in the dropping pill at a constant speed. Its effect can last for more than several days, such as chloramphenicol controlled-release eye dropping pills.

(2) The dropping pill machine can make suppository dropping pills. Like water-soluble suppositories, the dropping pills can be used with water-soluble substrates such as polyethylene glycol, which have effects in the cavity because of the dissolution of body fluids, such as norfloxacin ear dropping pills, metronidazole dental dropping pills, and so on.

(3) The dropping pill machine can be used to make solution dropping pills. The lubricants and disintegrants used in the tablets are mostly water-insoluble, so tablets are usually not used to prepare clear solutions. The dropping pills can be formulated with a water-soluble matrix, which can disintegrate into a clear solution in water. For example,

Chlorhexidine dropping pills can be used for drinking water disinfection.

(4) The dropping pill machine can make hard capsule dropping pills. The hard capsules can be filled with dropping pills with different dissolution rates to form sustained-release pill capsules with required dissolution rates, such as hard capsule dropping pills of bifendate.

(5) The dropping pill machine can be used to make coated dropping pills. Like tablets and pills, sugar coating, film coating, etc. are required, such as bifendate dropping pills.

(6) The dropping pill machine can be used to make liposome-dropping pills. The liposomes are suspension liquids and can be made into solid dosage forms with polyethylene glycol. The liposomes are added to the molten polyethylene glycol 4000 under constant stirring to form a suspension, which is poured into a mold, condensed, and molded.