STARTING AN HERBAL PHARMACY

Establishing an herbal pharmacy in your practice allows you to give the best possible care to your patients. With an herbal pharmacy, you can prepare formulas immediately, even while they wait, and you can customize formulas for individual needs.

WHAT YOU NEED TO START AN HERBAL PHARMACY

• A Pharmacy Starter Kit or 100-150 of the most commonly used single herb extracts
• An easy-to-clean calculator or calculator sealed within a ziploc bag
• A scale with a capacity of approximately 400g
• Weighing papers or reusable weighing mats (can be made by laminating sheets of paper with your logo printed on them)
• One or more laboratory scoops
• One or more small funnels
• Empty bottles and caps with tamper-evident seal
• Adhesive labels
• A heat gun and plastic heat shrink
• Plastic measuring spoons to provide to patients within or alongside each bottle
• Baskets able to hold approximately 15 bottles of single herb extracts
• An ergonomic, easy-to-clean work surface
• One or more bookcases with adequate shelving for all herbs and supplies
• Capsule filling machine and gelatin or vegetarian capsules (optional)