Herbal Lesson 20

Making Herbal Capsules
Daniel Blankley - Tuesday, December 26, 2017

I sat at my kitchen table, with a pan of empty gelatin capsules. I had size OOO (the largest) so that I could manually fill them from a shallow dish of garlic powder one at a time  :O All I can say is I did get a bunch of capsules mostly full of garlic. It was a slow, inaccurate and tedious process! If any of you have ever tried to fill capsules by hand you know exactly what I mean!

Now capsules of powdered herb are the most common way people take herbals as supplements. If you are taking things like garlic or other herbs, or other substances like filling your own capsules with MSM for your joints.. a small capsule filling machine will pay for itself in no time! They also press down the contents so your capsules are guaranteed full every time. The one I suggest from Mountain Rose Herbs is a dandy with a spring ejection system and it does 25 capsules at a time. The Capsule Machine is one of the best home encapsulating devices on the market. It automatically joins and ejects filled capsules, making it faster and easier to use than most encapsulation devices. The best part about this unit is that it comes with a free tamping device and allows you to quickly fill 24 capsules in less than 2 minutes. Dishwasher safe, made of strong ABS and Delrin plastic and guaranteed to last. This extremely useful device is convenient, reliable, fast, safe, clean, and economical.

Choose from a "0" or "00" capsule machine (THIS MAY BE A DRAWBACK if you want to fill the large OOO capsules) Personally I use the CAP-EM-QUICK which is not spring ejection and a little slower to use but it does twice as many, 50 at a time, and has a wider range of capsule sizes. I am thinking to get the one from Mountain Rose because that spring ejection is a cool feature.

There are a number of machines on the market and these are only two choices. I AM NOT going to describe how to fill capsules.. instructions vary and come with the machine you buy.

THINGS YOU WILL NEED

Capsule Filling Machine

Empty Gelatin Capsules

HANDS-ON VIDEOS 

Cap-M-Quik Capsule Filling Machine



How to Make Herbal Capsules (Monterrey Bay Spice Company)



Capsule Filling Methods; which is Best?



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They even make one able to do 400 at once but it is still a manual machine.

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