To provide a method for easily crushing a crude drug much containing oil content, sugar content or the like into particulate, and an apparatus for freeze-crushing the crude drug.

A method for freeze-crushing the crude drug is the one that a crusher and a crude drug feeder connected thereto are used. The crude drug is frozen by charging liquid nitrogen at a plurality of places in the course of feeding the crude drug by the crude drug feeder to crush the frozen crude drug into a particulate state in the crusher.