今週の採用記事（5週連続19回目）

I sometimes use herbal medicine. I know that there is one very famous area in HCM City where we can buy herbal medicine. It is very famous for Japanese tourists and is located near my wife's home, so I sometimes go there not to buy but to listen to the salespersons.



Various types of medicine are sold there and salespersons tell interesting stories about different medicine but I think half of the stories are made up.


We Japanese usually use herbal medicine as a supplemental method in case western medicine is not effective, but we are always concerned about their ingredients, effect, country of origin, and so on.


In Japan, medicine and drugs are strictly restricted by the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and herbal medicine is also required to be clarified and analysed in detail. Persons who prescribe and sell herbal medicine must have a pharmacist's licence issued by the Ministry of Health.




I don't know the Vietnamese system well but I think that sales qualifications and networks are not clear compared to western medicines. The Government should maintain or improve the related law. I don't think many of the people who sell herbal medicine have been educated and have enough knowledge to prescribe the correct remedies.