When I look at the medicine cabinet I bought as a household medicine, there are only medicines scattered around, so I don’t know what medicine it is.
Let’s look at how to search information about what kind of medicine it is by using the shape or color of the pill, and the letters or numbers written on the medicine when there is no prescription or medicine box.
How to search for drugs (Find drug names by pill shape, color) 약 검색 방법
1. Preparing drugs to retrieve
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Look at the shape or written phrase of the drug you are looking for. I’ll try to find a pill like the picture above. 좋은뉴스
2. Enter ‘medicine search’ in the Naver search bar
On Naver-Drug Search-Less-Screen
Drug search-enter
When you search, a window to search for medicines through ‘Search by medicine name’ appears immediately as shown in the picture above.
If you do not know the name of the drug you are looking for, click the ‘Search by medicine shape’ tab right next to it.
3. Select the [Find by pill shape] button
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4. Check the pill information you are looking for in the drug detailed search box
① Enter numbers and letters written on the pill
Enter the letters or numbers on the pill into the box next to ‘Search by pill shape’. If the pill has numbers or letters written on both the front and back, write them side by side using ‘, ‘.
Example) If the text written on the pill is TYER on the front and 325 on the back, enter TYER and 325.
② Select pill shape, color, dosage form, and dividing line
Please select the information of the pill you are looking for.
At this time, there are many cases where the search does not come out even if you select too carefully. First of all, if there is a phrase written on the pill, select only the phrase and shape, and check the rest. Search results will come out. Search only for the phrase and shape.
Short phrase, shape, color check-detail-search window-capture
About-Search-Detail Settings
5. Check drug search results
The search results contain detailed information about the drug, as well as drug name, classification, efficacy and effectiveness, dosage and administration, so you can check it out.
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In this way, we have found out how to find medicine simply with the shape of the medicine and the phrase written on the pill.
Please do not think, ‘What should I eat roughly?’, but find the drug information easily and follow the correct dosage.