Teknik Pelayuan dan Penyulingan Untuk Menghasilkan Minyak Timi Berkualitas

Abstract

The utilization of medicinal plants for health and increasing treatment at this time. The number of traditional medicine industry is increasing so the demand for medicinal plants as raw material for the drug also increased. The quality of raw materials is very important to note because the drugs associated with efficacy. And refining research techniques to produce a withering thyme oil quality testing has been carried out in the Laboratory of the Research Institute for Spices and Medicinal Crops, Bogor from January to December 2013. The objectives research was to obtain raw materials that meet the standards. The thyme, the first factor is the length of withering (0, 2, 4, and 6 days) and a long second distillation (2, 4 and 6 hours). The research design using factorial completely randomized design with three replications. Observation parameters consist of oil yield, refractive index and content thyme oil thymol. Thyme oil quality is affected by withering and distillation. The optimal distillation techniques found in withering thyme for 6 days and 6 hours distillation. Keywords: Thymus vulgaris L, withering, distillation, extraction and thymol