The present invention provides a medicine packing apparatus which can easily surely clean medicine passage to remove remaining medicine, whereby reducing labor of pharmacist and supplying patient with safe medicine. The apparatus is provided with a cleaning material feed apparatus for feeding cleaning material contained in a cleaning material container to any of sequential medicine passages between a receiving hopper and an outlet of a packing hopper. When cleaning is necessary, the cleaning material is fed to the medicine passage and then the cleaning material is recovered together with the remaining medicine on the medicine passage, whereby the medicine passage is cleaned up. |