No need to register for consultation, and special hospital preparations can be purchased by paying for errands and postage - why can hospital self-made drugs become "star drugs" for online shopping? Reading tips On the social networking platform, many netizens left messages asking about the price and use effect of hospital preparations, as well as whether they can prescribe drugs online and purchase drugs on behalf of others. Professionals said that the production of pharmaceutical preparations in medical institutions is based on the clinical medication needs of patients, with good efficacy and high safety. However, pharmaceutical preparations are drugs in nature, not commodities, and cannot be sold on the market according to the law. "In autumn and winter, the climate is dry, children's resistance is weak, and they are prone to various diseases, so they often pay attention to popular science articles about children's regular medicines on the Internet." Ms. Xu, from Changping District, Beijing, said that such articles included some common drugs in pharmacies, and there would also be home-made drugs from many hospitals, namely hospital preparations, and some claimed that there was a channel for purchasing hospital preparations. The reporter of the Workers' Daily learned in the interview that on the social platform, under the sharing content of hospital preparations, many netizens left messages asking about the price, use effect, and whether they could prescribe drugs online and purchase drugs on behalf of others. In response to these needs, some search websites, we media accounts, and shopping platforms also have recommended hospital preparations, and some users claim that they can write drugs for mailing, and charge a certain amount of errand fees and mailing fees. Professionals said that these preparations with targeted functions can accurately locate the "pain points" of patients, but patients must pay for them in the hospital according to the prescriptions issued by the hospital and take them according to the doctor's instructions, and they should not blindly buy them. Some hospital preparations became "gray" circulating commodities, Ms. Xu told the reporter that she had seen an article on the preparations of Beijing Children's Hospital on a social platform, which introduced various preparations of the hospital, including compound calamine lotion, Yindai cough relieving mixture, tannic acid ointment, Yuanzhi almond mixture, etc. After collecting the articles, the platform then recommended to her how to register in the hospital, ask for diagnosis and buy medicine, and many netizens left messages asking whether they could buy on behalf of others. By searching for keywords such as "running errands" and "buying medicine on behalf of others", the reporter directly contacted a purchasing agent on a shopping platform. The other party said that it could purchase pharyngitis granules made by a hospital in Shanghai on behalf of others, and it could also register, ask for medical advice, take medicine and send it by package. The buyer only needed to pay 40 yuan for each package of medicine and 100 yuan for running errands. Some consumers also said to reporters that many hospital preparations have a high popularity, but it is difficult to go to the hospital to buy drugs in person, so they want to obtain them through other channels. In addition to making inquiries on the shared content of the social platform, shopping websites look for agents to buy errands. The surplus drugs of some patients who have purchased drugs also flow out through second-hand websites, making these hospital preparations "gray" circulating commodities. Wei Jinghai, deputy director of the pharmacy department of Beijing Children's Hospital, introduced to the reporter of the Workers' Daily: "With the increasing health needs of the people, in order to meet the clinical drug needs, we began to prepare preparations for medical institutions, effectively making up for the lack of drugs." The newly revised Drug Administration Law in 2019 makes it clear that the preparations of medical institutions should be the varieties that are clinically needed by the unit but not available on the market, and should be approved by the local drug regulatory department. Unless otherwise specified in the law for the preparation of traditional Chinese medicine preparations