What's the difference between health care products and medicines?

The difference between health care products and drugs:

1, instruction difference

The drugs are described in detail.

There is no detailed description of health food, only a brief introduction.

2, the difference between indications

Drugs refer to substances with prescribed indications or functional indications, usage and dosage.

Health food is only suitable for people, and has no indications and functional indications.

3. Can you treat the difference between diseases?

Drugs are used to prevent, treat and diagnose human diseases.

Health food does not aim at treating diseases, and health food cannot replace drugs to treat diseases.

4. Differences in side effects

Drugs can produce some side effects.

Health food will not cause any acute, subacute or chronic harm to human body.

5. Different management methods

Health food is mainly absorbed through the intestine after oral administration.

Drugs can be intramuscular injection, intravenous injection, skin administration, oral administration, etc.

Extended data:

1, health products

Health products are the popular name for health food. Article 3 of GB 16740-97 General Standard for Health (Functional) Foods defines health food as: "Health (Functional) food refers to a kind of food that has the characteristics of general food, can regulate human function and is suitable for specific people to eat, but does not aim at treating diseases.

2. medicine

According to the definition of drugs in Article 102 of the Drug Administration Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), drugs refer to substances that are used to prevent, treat and diagnose human diseases, purposefully regulate human physiological functions, and specify indications or functional indications, usage and dosage, including Chinese herbal medicines, Chinese herbal pieces, Chinese patent medicines, chemical raw materials and their preparations, antibiotics, biochemical drugs, radioactive drugs, serum, vaccines, blood products and diagnostic drugs.

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