The microwave auxiliary extracting method of effective liquorice
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of extracting method of Chinese herbal medicine effective ingredients, particularly relate to the method that a kind of employing microwave treatment-Soxhlet is extracted process integration.
Background technology
Radix Glycyrrhizae is the traditional Chinese crude drug of China, and it is historical remote, of many uses as one of composition of Chinese herbal medicine or some Chinese patent medicines.In recent years Radix Glycyrrhizae extract such as glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhizic acid, Angelica Polysaccharide and licoflavone etc. be studies show that Radix Glycyrrhizae extract has the effect of antitumor, mutation, blood fat reducing, enhance immunity adjusting.Traditional Radix Glycyrrhizae extracting method has extraction, Soxhlet method, circumfluence method etc., all has extraction time length, impurity dissolution rate height, problems such as the solvent for use amount is big, extraction efficiency is low, organic solvent residual; If use water as the extraction solvent, when extraction time than long time easy moldy metamorphism also.The ultrasonic extraction of newly-developed is to utilize cavitation effect of ultrasonic waves to strengthen leaching process, CO
2Supercritical methanol technology is to utilize to extract solvent property change the leaching process of strengthening under supercriticality, and the extraction effect of these two kinds of methods all significantly is better than traditional method, but have all that equipment investment is big, operating cost is than problems such as height.Microwave-assisted extracts by using less solvent and energy to support, is an eco-friendly green production technology, and its mechanism of action is difference and other method fully.The volume heating of microwave and selectivity heating, the microscopic structures of vegetable material is changed, make that target component is easier to be discharged from substrate, therefore, microwave-assisted extracts can improve extraction rate, reaches the purpose of strengthening mass transfer, shortening extraction time.It all is extractions of adopting microwave to replace traditional heat source to carry out that the effective liquorice microwave-assisted of reported in literature extracts, the people's such as Zhang Mengjun that deliver as " Chinese patent medicine " 2002 the 24th the 5th phase of volume article " microwave-assisted extracts the research of licoflavone " utilizes the direct irradiation Radix Glycyrrhizae of microwave energy and extracts solvent; The people's such as Xuejun Pan that deliver as " Biochemicalengineering journal " the 5th phase in 2002 article " Microwave-assistedextraction of glycyrrhizic acid from licorice root ", utilize microwave to carry out the Radix Glycyrrhizae reflux, extract, as thermal source, therefore need special-purpose Microwave Extraction Equipment, change bigger existing technology.The present invention overcomes the deficiencies in the prior art, is starting point to utilize microwave technology to improve traditional handicraft, and extraction process is significantly improved and enhanced.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of extracting method that can significantly improve effective liquorice, extract quality improved significantly, and have extraction efficiency height, flow process simple and reliable, be applicable to industrial characteristics.
For reaching this purpose, the method for inventing and used a kind of microwave treatment and Soxhlet to extract process integration is extracted effective liquorice, is different from the simple method with the microwave extraction medicinal liquid of present employing.Major technique of the present invention is characterised in that the leaching process of effective liquorice has adopted microwave exposure to handle with Soxhlet and extracted process integration, microwave treatment after Radix Glycyrrhizae is soaked is carried out under normal pressure, controlled microwave irradiance power density 30~70W/g (Radix Glycyrrhizae), microwave irradiation time 10~30 seconds, water temperature is below boiling point.Amount of water in the Radix Glycyrrhizae immersion process is 1.5~3.5 times of medical material, soak time 1~10 minute.0.5~2.5 hour extraction time.The controlled microwave irradiance power density also can be 45~65W/g (Radix Glycyrrhizae), microwave irradiation time 10~15 seconds.Microwave treatment can be clearance-type or continous way.The present invention utilizes the characteristics of microwave volume heating and selectivity heating, strengthen in the medical material target component from medical material inside to the diffusion of extracting solvent.The effective ingredient of Chinese crude drug is intracellular matter, discharges in cell so the extraction of effective ingredient is actually target component, is diffused into the process in the solvent.The first step of extracting method is to adopt microwave exposure, by microwave heating the microscopic structures of host material inside is changed, and reduces in the leaching process target component in the resistance to mass tranfer of host material inside; Second step extracted for Soxhlet, can keep the higher concentration difference inside and outside host material of licorice ingredient in the leaching process like this, thus the extraction efficiency height, and need not filtration, technology is simple.
Specific embodiment
Below in conjunction with embodiment the present invention is further detailed.
Radix Glycyrrhizae is soaked after the plant pulverizer is ground into 20~80 orders with it, and it is 3.0 times of amounts of medical material that amount of water is soaked in control, soak time 2 minutes.Guarantee the Radix Glycyrrhizae moistening, but do not retain too many moisture, otherwise having relatively high expectations to microwave equipment and splendid attire medical material container.The Radix Glycyrrhizae powder that the first step will be soaked is put into microwave field and is carried out microwave pretreatment.Under normal pressure, carry out, present embodiment controlled microwave power density 52W/g (Radix Glycyrrhizae), exposure time 12 seconds guarantees that water temperature is below boiling point.Second step was that Soxhlet is extracted.The medical material that microwave treatment is crossed is transferred in the apparatus,Soxhlet's, and the extraction solvent is a water, and control extractant consumption is 12 times of medical material, 2.0 hours extraction times.Extracting solution can be produced glycyrrhizic acid inclusion compound and extractum respectively.Extracting solution adds dilute sulfuric acid and transfers Ph=2, leaves standstill 12 hours, and filtration will precipitate oven dry and promptly get glycyrrhizic acid inclusion compound.Extracting solution gets glycyrrhizic acid extractum through concentrated, water bath method to constant weight.Calculating the Radix Glycyrrhizae extractum yield with inventory is 36.55%, and the glycyrrhizic acid inclusion compound yield is 8.19%, and content in crude product is 22.41% in the extractum.
Comparative example 1: technical process and embodiment are basic identical, and not existing together is to soak 1h.
Comparative example 2: technical process and embodiment are basic identical, do not exist together be do not soak, without microwave treatment.
Comparative example 3: technical process and embodiment are basic identical, do not exist together be soak 1h, without microwave treatment.
Comparative example 4: technical process and embodiment are basic identical, do not exist together be soak 1h, without microwave treatment, Soxhlet extraction time is 3.5h.
It is as shown in the table that embodiment and comparative example extract experimental result.
Comparative example 2 is compared with comparative example 3: the effect of soaking traditional Soxhlet extraction process is described.
Embodiment compares with comparative example 1: the effect of soaking new technology is described.
Embodiment compares with comparative example 2: illustrate that new technology is better than traditional Soxhlet extraction process.
Embodiment compares with comparative example 4: illustrate that new technology is better than traditional Soxhlet extraction process.
Table: embodiment and comparative example extract experimental result
The experiment number | Yield of extract (%) | Crude product yield (%) | Content in crude product in the extractum (%) | Process characteristic/operating time |
Embodiment | ????36.55 | ????8.19 | ?????22.41 | Do not soak-microwave/2h |
Comparative example 1 | ????33.00 | ????7.16 | ?????21.70 | Soak 1h-microwave/3h |
Comparative example 2 | ????28.44 | ????3.17 | ?????11.15 | Do not soak-microwave/2h not |
Comparative example 3 | ????30.19 | ????5.80 | ?????19.21 | Soak not microwave/3h of 1h- |
Comparative example 4 | ????34.53 | ????7.48 | ?????21.66 | Soak not microwave/4.5h of 1h- |
Beneficial effect of the present invention and advantage are: combine the advantage of microwave technology and traditional Soxhlet extraction process, extracting efficiency significantly improves, the glycyrrhizic acid yield increases, and has overcome simultaneously the problem that traditional handicraft extraction time is long, solvent load is large. Use water instead as extractant, organic solvent-free is residual, environmentally safe, clean environment firendly. The present invention is take applied microwave technological transformation traditional handicraft as starting point, so existing microwave equipment is not had special requirement, less to the current technology change, flow process is simple and reliable, is applicable to industrial production.