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Thai Pharmacy Phrases: Symptoms and Medicine Words
Learn Thai vocabulary at the pharmacy: symptoms, medicine names and polite requests in Thai script, transliteration and literal English.
A Thai pharmacy is one of the most useful classrooms you will walk into. You can learn Thai vocabulary here that you will actually need — headache, fever, cough, allergy, after meals, three times a day — and you can check every word against a box sitting on the counter.
Learn Thai vocabulary for the symptoms you actually have
| Thai | Pronunciation | Literal English |
|---|---|---|
| ปวดหัว | puat hua | hurt + head — a headache |
| ปวดท้อง | puat thong | hurt + stomach |
| เป็นไข้ | pen khai | be + fever |
| ไอ | ai | to cough |
| เจ็บคอ | jep kho | hurt + neck/throat |
- ยาแก้ปวด (yaa kae puat) — painkiller.
- ยาแก้ไอ (yaa kae ai) — cough medicine.
- ยาลดไข้ (yaa lot khai) — fever reducer.
- พาราเซตามอล (phaa-raa-say-taa-mon) — paracetamol.
A man says ครับ. A woman says ค่ะ. See khrap and kha.
Study tip: pick three symptoms you actually get and the matching medicine name. Write them in Thai script and use those three sentences the next time you walk in.