A method for preparing a medicine or a health functional food from herb medicines is provided to obtain a pill or a tablet showing immediate efficacy and enough maintenance capacity with securing safety and smooth absorption capability from a mixture of a starch-syrup type medicinal decoction and a herb medicine mixture powder. A method for preparing a medicine or a health functional food comprises the steps of: (a) after weighing total 2,120 grams of 7 herb medicines excluding ox bezoar, musk and As2S3 and mixing the herb medicines, extracting the medicines using an oriental herb medicine extractor to obtain an extract and evaporating moisture from the extract to prepare a starch-syrup type medicinal decoction with a weight of about 1,000 grams; (b) after finely crushing the ox bezoar, musk and As2S3 using a small crusher, mixing the crushed material with a portion of the prepared starch-syrup type medicinal decoction; (c) mixing the powders with a mixture obtained from the step(b) and kneading it after fine