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Pitfall of Using Microwave to Dry Herb  (in English and Chinese 中英文)
用微波爐乾燥處理中藥的隱患

Translated by: Joe Hing kwok Chu 朱興國編譯

Using microwave to process food or Chinese medicine can be harmful because it may destroy the active ingredients of alkaloids.
 

But, in the Zhong Hua Ben Cao (Chinese Materia Medica) contain a statement like this:

 Microwave drying process
Microwave is a high-frequency electromagnetic waves. Microwave drying is actually an induction heating
And dielectric heating, the herbs in water and fat can absorb microwave energy
Volume, and transformed into heat, and rapidly warming dry. Microwave drying with the drying rate
Fast, time is short, uniform heating, high product quality, high thermal efficiency, and insecticide, sterilization effect."

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