Automatic Chinese herbal medicine pharmacy and prescription filling method thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to a pharmacy, in particular to an automatic Chinese herbal medicine pharmacy and an automatic prescription filling method utilized for the same. The automatic Chinese herbal medicine pharmacy comprises a medicine box, a medicine box identifying device, a medicine feeding sorting device, a medicine storage cabinet, medicine discharging sorting devices and a control and management system, Chinese herbal medicine is arranged in the medicine box, the medicine box is sequentially circularly used in the medicine feeding sorting device, the medicine storage cabinet and the medicine discharging sorting device, the medicine box identifying device is arranged on the front side of the medicine feeding sorting device, and the control and management system is communicated with the medicine box, the medicine box identifying device, the medicine feeding sorting device, the medicine storage cabinet and the medicine discharging sorting devices respectively. Automatic prescription filling can be realized in the automatic Chinese herbal medicine pharmacy according to prescription, storage and dispensing efficiency and accuracy of the Chinese herbal medicine in bulk are improved, labor intensity of the Chinese herbal medicine pharmacy is reduced, package cost of prescription filling of the Chinese herbal medicine is reduced and service quality of the pharmacy of hospitals is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a pharmacy, in particular to an automatic pharmacy for Chinese herbal medicine and an automatic dispensing method using the pharmacy. Background technique [0002] The current Chinese herbal medicines in pharmacies are generally packaged in two forms: one is small-package Chinese herbal medicine pieces, which are Chinese medicine medicine pieces that pack bulk Chinese medicine according to the set dose and can directly "several packs" formula. The packaging specifications of small-packages of Chinese herbal medicines are generally the commonly used doses. However, traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are aimed at different people and diseases, and the same herbal medicine varies greatly in different prescriptions. In the production of small packages of Chinese herbal decoction pieces, each small package uses plastic bags as packaging materials for packaging and printing, which greatly increases the production cost and inc...

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Problems solved by technology

The packaging specifications of small-packages of Chinese herbal medicines are generally commonly used doses, while traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are aimed at different people and diseases, and the same herbal medicine varies greatly in different prescriptions. Small-packages of Chinese herbal medicines can not meet the needs of different dosage

In the production of small packages of Chinese herbal medicines, each small package uses plastic bags as packaging materials for packaging and printing, which greatly increases production costs and increases white pollution to the environment

In addition, when dispensing medicines, pharmacists need to go to multiple medicine boxes to count the medicine packages and check them one by one, which is labor-intensive and prone to errors

The second type is Chinese herbal medicine in bulk, which uses "grasping and weighing by hand" to grasp the medicine, which consumes a lot of labor, low efficiency, inaccurate weighing, uneven distribution, difficult review, large loss, and patients have to wait for a long time to take the medicine.

At present, there is no automatic equipment for loading, storing and dispensing medicines in bulk Chinese herbal medicine pharmacies

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