We Recommend Them as Souvenirs for Your Parents! Three Choices of Products You Should Buy at a Drugstore in Japan
Shopping at a drugstore is cited as one of the greatest pleasures during a trip to Japan. We will introduce you to products you certainly must buy, whether for yourself or as souvenirs. There are three choices this time that we recommend as souvenirs for your dear parents.
Pansiron Active 55 for a stomach that weakens with age
They cannot eat it even though they want to … food is frequently not easily digested… Those symptoms are perhaps signs that a person’s stomach is weakening due to aging! If the functions of the stomach decline, undigested food accumulates in the stomach for a long time, and a heavy feeling in the stomach occurs. Here is digestive medicine that improves the digestive ability of such a weakened stomach.
Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s Pansiron Active 55 ST, 14 packets
For over 50 years, the Panciron series has confronted various stomach troubles and has been a famous longtime best-selling brand in Japan. Above all else, Active 55 is a specialized digestive medicine for stomach decline due to aging. Its power to digest fat is the greatest in the series! It is the best for greasy meals. Thus, from the moment one drinks it, the refreshing sensation one feels will resolve stomach discomfort. There are two types of Active 55: granules and small drops. We will introduce you this time to the unusual small drops.
The small-drop type, which Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. developed independently, is a drop whose size is about 4mm in diameter. It looks as if it were a supplement. One can swallow it easily, and it is made so that a medicinal taste does not easily spread throughout one’s mouth. Thus, it is perfect for people who are not very good at swallowing pills or powders!
Characteristics of the product:
・It comes in small packets, so it is easy to carry.
・It is a mixture of natural remedies to invigorate and strengthen the stomach.
・Its digestive enzymes are double the regular amount! It has the maximum amount in the series.
V Rohto Premium Active for eye strain due to age
And those who know it know it very well: V Rohto. From V Rohto comes specialized eye drops for eye strain also due to aging. The eye drops are popular in Japan, of course, and also with foreigners who visit Japan. Thus, many people probably already have this item on their shopping lists!
V Rohto Premium Active
Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a manufacturer that has the largest market share in Japan for eye care products, has spent many years of research on chondroitin, a macromolecule that protects the cornea and provides care for damage in the pupils due to dryness. Aren’t there many people past their sixties whose quantity of tear secretion has declined and whose eyes tire easily and do not come into focus? The talk of the town, by word of mouth, is that the eye drops feel good, feel refreshing, and are effective for dim eyesight.
Characteristics of the product:
・It is used for “prescriptions to re-invigorate the visual function.”
・It promotes the secretion of tear components and repairs corneal damage.
・The bottle is such that one can comfortably administer eye drops from it at any angle.
Its birthplace is Japan! Salonpas, a poultice well-known throughout the world
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.’s Salonpas Ae
Salonpas always places at the top as a pharmaceutical that one should definitely buy if one goes to Japan. It is popular because of its gentle feeling on the skin during use and its effects. All one has to do is apply a patch to a stiff or sore area of a tired muscle, and one’s skin will absorb the active ingredients, thereby alleviating one’s pain. One can replace a patch many times a day. Thus, it will relieve chronic physical pain and discomfort due to aging.
Characteristics of the product:
・It is generally effective against physical pain such as stiff shoulders and lower back pain.
・It will perfectly fit on the skin.
・It absorbs sweat and suppresses skin irritation.
How was it? This was our introduction to superior products you can buy at a drugstore in Japan as souvenirs for your dear parents!
Whichever product you choose, your parents will certainly be delighted! Please give them as tokens of your appreciation.
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