Guest guest Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 For those who are using granulated herbs - are you encapsulating formulas for your patients or making them do it themselves? Years ago I did a few custom formulas using a 'cap-m-quick' or something like that, and it was a royal pain. I see there is a $400 thing out there, the 'Easy Capsule Filler' that looks business, but if you have to still go through all that seperating male / female ends etc, then it's not much more useful than the cap-m-quick, is it? Also, if you are dosing 3gm tid, then is that 6 '00' caps tid? That's a lot of capsules! Cheers, Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 , " G Hudson " <crudo20 wrote: > > For those who are using granulated herbs - are you encapsulating > formulas for your patients or making them do it themselves? Years ago > I did a few custom formulas using a 'cap-m-quick' or something like > that, and it was a royal pain. I see there is a $400 thing out there, > the 'Easy Capsule Filler' that looks business, but if you have to > still go through all that seperating male / female ends etc, then it's > not much more useful than the cap-m-quick, is it? Also, if you are > dosing 3gm tid, then is that 6 '00' caps tid? That's a lot of > capsules! The Blue Poppy products are probably the best if you need encapsulated products. The normal approx. 5:1 ratio requires a lot of caps, whereas Blue Poppy uses 10:1 extracts and they are already encapsulated. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Thanks Eric - but I'm only interested so I can make customized Rx per patient, otherwise I would stick with the pills. Cheers, Geoff > > The Blue Poppy products are probably the best if you need encapsulated > products. The normal approx. 5:1 ratio requires a lot of caps, > whereas Blue Poppy uses 10:1 extracts and they are already encapsulated. > > Eric > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 The cap-m-quick is one step above filling by hand, the only real advantage I see with it is that you can tamp them and get them fairly consistent. The 400+ dollar machines are about the fastest assisted hand tool for capsule filling I've seen, it will actaully orient and separate the caps for you (assuming you have the part that does that, I'm not sure it is standard for those machines), and when I was using one alot the damage rate was pretty low, 2-3% of the 100 made would end up scrap. Still, it takes 5-10 minutes to make 100 and unless you charge alot for the service the tedium will outweigh the benefits pretty quickly. If you get really good at it I bet you could get it down to 3 -4 minutes per hundred (maybe less, I'm pretty slow with that sort of thing), which means going full out for an hour you could encapsulate at least 1500 caps. There's a guy in Boston who sells his own powder patents in capsules and when I used to go into his place sometimes his mother (probably in her 80's) would be sitting in front of a mixing bowl full of powder making capsules one at a time. It was my impression that she was doing at a pretty good clip, but I don't think she was that fast. Par Scott - G Hudson Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:01 PM Encapsulation? For those who are using granulated herbs - are you encapsulating formulas for your patients or making them do it themselves? Years ago I did a few custom formulas using a 'cap-m-quick' or something like that, and it was a royal pain. I see there is a $400 thing out there, the 'Easy Capsule Filler' that looks business, but if you have to still go through all that seperating male / female ends etc, then it's not much more useful than the cap-m-quick, is it? Also, if you are dosing 3gm tid, then is that 6 '00' caps tid? That's a lot of capsules! Cheers, Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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