Device and method for dispensing medicine

摘要

A medicine dispensing device may include: a device body; a container containing a plurality of blister packs with medicines packaged individually as arranged one behind another and being attached to the device body such that the blister packs are horizontally arranged one behind another; a dispensing member movably provided in the device body and being moved up to the container to dispense the blister pack contained in the container; a gripping member gripping and carrying the blister pack dispensed by the dispensing member; and a cutting member cutting off a fraction from the blister pack gripped and carried by the gripping member. Depending upon the opened positions of an opening/closing door, one sheet of the blister pack is dispensed as it is or the fraction thereof is dispensed.