Search for medicines by indication — find medicines for a specific symptom in your home medicine cabinet

In everyday life, you are more likely to remember the symptom than the medicine name. You know you need something “for a sore throat”, “for a cough”, or “for an allergy”, but you cannot remember which product you already have at home. The Search by indication feature in mojApteczka helps organise this and lets you search your home medicine cabinet by therapeutic use, not just by brand name.

What does searching medicines by indication mean?

Standard medicine lists work well when you know exactly what you are looking for. In a home medicine cabinet, that is not always the case. Many people only remember that they need something “for a fever”, “for a runny nose”, or “for a headache”, not the exact product name. On top of that, some medicines come in several variants, different doses, or similar-sounding names, which makes it even harder to find the right product quickly.

In mojApteczka, search by indication is based on ATC classification and data on therapeutic indications. This allows the app to show which medicines already stored in your cabinet may match a given symptom or need. That means less confusion, less guesswork, and a lower risk of buying another medicine when you already have a similar product at home.

How does the feature work in mojApteczka?

After you enter a symptom, condition, or general use, the system searches only the medicines stored in the selected cabinet. This matters because the goal is not to show the entire medicines market, but to help you use what you already have to hand.

The process is simple:

1. open the selected medicine cabinet,
2. go to search by indication,
3. enter a symptom such as “sore throat”, “cough”, “fever”, or “allergy”,
4. the system matches medicines in your cabinet to therapeutic indications,
5. review the results and open the medicine details you need.

In practice, this shortens the time needed to find the right product, especially when the medicine cabinet is larger, shared by the family, or contains medicines used by different household members.

When is this feature especially useful?

Search by indication is most helpful in situations where speed and clarity matter:

• when symptoms appear suddenly at home — when you want to quickly check what you have for a fever, pain, or a runny nose,
• in family medicine cabinets — when several people use one set of medicines and it is easy to get lost among the names,
• for caregivers — when you need to quickly find products used by an older adult or a child,
• before going to the pharmacy — so you can first check whether the right medicine is already at home.

Combined with medicine substitutes, you can first find a medicine by indication and then check whether you also have alternatives in your cabinet. In turn, patient information leaflets and SmPCs help you go straight to the official information for the selected product.

How do you use it step by step?

1. Make sure your medicine cabinet is up to date and contains all important medicines. If needed, add them manually or by using AI recognition.
2. Open search by indication in the selected medicine cabinet.
3. Enter the symptom or use that you are interested in.
4. Review the list of results and open the details for a specific medicine.
5. If you want to, check the patient information leaflet, drug interactions, or paediatric classification straight away, so you can make a more informed decision.

This approach is much more natural than manually scrolling through a long list of medicines and trying to guess which product might fit the situation.

Why is this more useful than a simple name search?

The main difference is that the search works in the context of your own medicine cabinet. You do not get general results from the internet, but specific answers to the question: which of the medicines I already have may match this need?

This has several practical benefits:

• it reduces duplicate purchases,
• it makes it easier to use medicines that are already at home,
• it helps organise larger family medicine cabinets,
• it supports quick decision-making in everyday situations.

If you also use medicine grouping, you can find the right product even faster by storage location or family member. Combined with notes, you can also immediately see your own comments on how to use a given medicine.

What should you keep in mind?

Search by indication is a support feature. It shows which medicines in your cabinet may match a given symptom or therapeutic category, but it does not replace a diagnosis, medical consultation, or advice from a pharmacist. Symptoms that sound similar can have different causes, and not every medicine will be appropriate for every user.

That is why it is worth checking the product details before use, and in the case of children also going to the paediatric classification. If you take several medicines at the same time, a good next step is to check drug interactions.

Important: mojApteczka helps you find the right medicine in your cabinet faster, but it does not make medical decisions for you. If in doubt, always consult a doctor or pharmacist.

The Search by indication feature makes a home medicine cabinet genuinely useful in practice. Instead of remembering product names, you can start with what you need, and the app will show the medicines you already have to hand.

Watch videoSee how this feature works in the app