medicine shop

noun

1. (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines

Example Sentences

Based on the number of local L.A. content creators that have visited Tian Xiang — a small, nondescript herbal medicine shop in Los Angeles’ Chinatown — you might think it’s the single best Chinese pharmacy in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

Scientists’ fascination with G. blacki began in 1935, when anthropologist Gustav von Koenigswald spotted what was being sold as a “dragon tooth” in a Hong Kong traditional medicine shop.

From Science Magazine

Empty palm tree-lined roads led to a mall where a karaoke lounge, a birds-nest museum and a herbal medicine shop were among the outlets shuttered.

From Reuters

The mythology published on the Kentucky for Kentucky website claims that same bear was stuffed back in the ’80s and moved from a park’s recreation center to a storage facility to a pawnshop to the possession of a country musician who may or may not have been Waylon Jennings — a spokesman for the country music legend’s son told the Wall Street Journal that Jennings never purchased a taxidermied bear — to his friend Ron Thompson and then to a traditional Chinese medicine shop.

From Washington Post

Alan Cheung, the owner of the Sands Medicine Shop in the Wan Chai district, said he was receiving around 10 inquiries about flu medication from mainland residents every day.

From Washington Times