Preliminary study for the medical and aromatic plants

Prepared by
Dar Al-Khalaf for Agriculture studies
& Consultations

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introduction
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants are agricultural crops
unconventional. There are about 2,000 species of which grow wild
in the Arab world, it is grown specifically for industrial purposes.
These plants are used either by drying or extracting oil from them.
The importance of the project

Broad global concern went to cultivation of medicinal and

aromatic plants for use or use parts of them to get the aromatic
oils that used in several industrial components as alternative to
numerous of chemical formulations .
The Arab region occupies a
prominent place among the
world medical herbs exporters,
especially to Europe, where the
increasingly popular use of
medicinal plants and herbs in the
treatment.
Medicinal and aromatic plants
gain its importance in the
industry uses such as :
*Food industry (natural flavors
materials and natural preservative).
*Pharmaceutical industry (various types of medicines, eye drops,
and paints. ).
*Cosmetics industry (shampoos, cream, oils)
*Perfume industry of all kinds.
*Chemical Industries (soap, air freshener, pesticides).... ,
*beverage industries (pollen - Ginger - chamomile, etc)
The price of a kilo grams of essential oils reach hundreds of
dinars so be sure of their quality and not defraud, it determines

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 the price of many factors, the most important of confidence in the
availability of the product, and make sure the controls and
restrictions and controls on these products and then
The availability of sufficient appropriate analytical tests whether
natural or chemical or sensory tests. ,Aromatic water and is
considered one of which outputs essential oils extracted during
one of the oldest aromatic products since the ancient Egyptians
and even the Middle Ages, a water emulsions, water-saturated
solutions serene volatile oils. Usually used for termite flavor, such
as rose water or orange blossom water or water mint and others,
and also have therapeutic qualities characteristic .

Raw materials:
Some raw materials from plants
and herbs, medicinal crops can be
extracted oils aromatic well in
Kuwait are available, and
increasingly now tracts of land
planted to these crops in some
friendly Arab countries, which can
import quantities at affordable
prices in order to correspond to
local needs and export the
surplus out of the country.

The most important of these plants:

Medicinal plants and herbs and aromatic plants

Products
Given the high variability in the composition of different essential
oils, it must be obtained from different plants and in ways that suit
the nature of each plant and the quality of its aromatic oils and rate
and degree of sensitivity to heat and its uses.

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Therefore, essential oils
combination resulting vary
depending on the nature of each
natural and specifications plant,
but in all cases the product of
essential oils is an important and
highly sensitive product and
should take care of him well, and to
be free of exotic and free of toxic
metals and non-volatile residues .
And due to the use of these oils in an important and accurate
industries such as perfumes, cosmetics, food and pharmaceuticals
industries.
Technical elements of the project
Manufacturing stages
aromatic and medicinal oils manufacturing process and drawn
from several plants stages including:
Phase 1 : The initial stage: the stage of cleaning
Are cleaned medicinal and aromatic plants or seeds or fruits of
a good cleaning is dust, insects and exotic plants that may exist
with indigenous plants and all other types of impurities.
The plants must be smelly natural, healthy and free and the
color of the bloc and rotting . cleaning process of sorting and
filtering and then washing with running water and filtered water

Phase 2: the stage of processing

The processing plant is divided into parts or into slices if
large size, can also be chopping wood branches into thin
slices or grated or grinded small pieces. (Such as lemon leaf,
olive, orange.)... ,
Phase3: Freezing
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The plants are placed (such as plants, roses, mint, basil)....
Especially for flowers, leaves, weeds and small branches
directly in the oil extraction machine parts, and other parts,
which have been crushed and shredded and Jurscha which
large parts are fed by the process of recovery in the
refrigerator, under a temperature of 20 C for two or three
days and then directly enter the extraction process and is
frozen , this process keeps the components as they are good
condition.
Phase 4: the process of distillation:
distillation process is considered essential and important in
the extraction of medicinal and aromatic oil.

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