im thinking that you should cut it as small as you can for better and equled drying, and put it on a screen to dry in low humid area, you probbebly can dry it in the sun cause its bark, if it was flowers of more gental part of the plant the shade would be better.
maybe after you think its dry you can put it in food dehydrator for extra drying and to make sure that theres the least amount of moister that can be.
btw are you cutting only the root cortex(bark)? the whole root will be just waste of time
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