Telling pharmacist stomach hurts (Advanced): Giving context to the pharmacist

💬 も here means "also", adding a second symptom on top of the first. むかむか is another sound-word, the churning feeling of nausea.

💬 In Japanese you "drink" medicine: 薬を飲む is used even for pills.

🇯🇵 Pharmacists routinely ask this before recommending stronger over-the-counter drugs, so have your current medications ready to name or show.

💬 って is a casual stand-in for は, pointing back to what was just mentioned. それって本当? "Is that true?"

💬 止め means "stopper", so this is literally a "pain-stopper". Compare 咳止め (sekidome) "cough medicine".

💬 Put any body part before に負担がかかる to say something is hard on it: 肝臓に (kanzō ni) "on the liver".

💬 Past form + ほうがいい means "you'd better". Note that the past form is used even for advice about the future: 休んだほうがいい (yasunda hō ga ii) "you should rest".

🇯🇵 控える means to hold back or cut down, not necessarily to stop completely. It's the gentle, typical way Japanese staff phrase health advice.

💬 In Japanese the describing verb goes directly before the noun, with no "that" needed: 合う + 胃薬. Same with 合う靴 "shoes that fit".

💬 〜ていただけますか is a very polite "could you do this for me?" Swap the verb: 教えていただけますか "Could you tell me?"

🇯🇵 Asking the pharmacist to choose for you is completely normal in Japan; the shelves are crowded with similar boxes, and staff expect to guide you.

💬 でしたら is the polite form of だったら "if so"; staff use it when responding to what a customer just said.

🇯🇵 You'll see おすすめ on handwritten shop signs everywhere in Japan, marking the staff's pick. Here it's said while pointing to a product.

💬 おすすめ "recommendation" is worth knowing on its own; you'll see it on menus and shop signs everywhere.

💬 三日 is said (mikka), not (san-nichi). 〜ても means "even if/even after": 待っても "even if I wait".

💬 なければ turns a verb into "if it doesn't...": 治る (naoru) "to get better" becomes 治らなければ (naoranakereba). The same ending works elsewhere, like 行かなければ (ikanakereba) "if I don't go".

💬 ね at the end softens the instruction into friendly concern, like adding "okay?"

🇯🇵 病院 covers small local clinics too, not just big hospitals; for a stomach issue you'd typically visit a neighborhood clinic.

🇯🇵 ご丁寧に thanks someone for their care and thoroughness, a warm way to close after a pharmacist has taken time explaining things.

🇯🇵 This is what staff say to someone who is unwell, so you'll hear it as you leave; a simple ありがとうございます is the natural reply. It's not used for healthy people as a general goodbye.