The history of human taking capsule medicine has been more than three thousand years, according to 1500 BC, the first capsule was born in ancient Egypt, the taste of bitter or irritating powder into the capsule according to the dose for easy to swallow, for more than three thousand years, the capsule has been proved to be the most effective way to solve the oral drug difficult to swallow.
In more recent times, in 1730, pharmacists in Vienna began to make capsules from starch.
One hundred years later, in 1834, the technology for the manufacture of the all-in-one capsule was patented in Paris.
Within a few years, the French transformed the one-piece capsule into the two-section hard capsule we use today.
Of course, in order to completely bid farewell to the history of manual capsule manufacturing, humans still need to wait for nearly a hundred years for the capsule manufacturing filling machine, which provides the possibility for the capsule to quickly sweep the pharmaceutical industry around the world as a standard preparation.
The first capsule was born in Egypt, but it was not a capsule in the way we know it today. It is a kind of manual coating invented by the ancestors in order to make the drug easy to swallow and avoid discomfort. Since then, the capsule has become the carrier of the drug and formed a kind of drug dosage form.
Viennese pharmacists began to make capsules out of starch.
The capsule manufacturing technology was patented in Paris.
People made hard capsules in two pieces, which is what we see now.
The first capsule filling machine was born in France.
Industrial production of hard capsules was started in Detroit, USA, and various models were introduced at the same time.
From the source of raw materials, capsules can be divided into plant and animal sources.
In terms of texture, capsules can be divided into hard capsules and soft capsules.
In recent years, in order to pursue a more eco-friendly and healthier lifestyle, plant capsules have been more and more widely promoted in the world, especially in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, and are gradually entering the lives of Chinese consumers.
Shandong Healsee Capsule Ltd. is a professional vegetable hollow capsule field research and development, production and sales as one of the national high-tech enterprises. Established in 2014, the company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shandong Heda Group, a listed company. The company covers an area of 67,000 square meters and has the world's largest plant hollow capsule production base.
