Many people don't understand the difference between health care products and medicines. They always regard health care products as medicine, thinking that the efficacy of health care products is really as good as medicine. In fact, health care products only play a role in health care.

Health food can not be directly used to treat diseases, but is a human mechanism regulator and nutritional supplement. Drugs are directly used to treat diseases.

(a) the definition of drugs, health food and food.

Drugs refer to substances 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.

Health food refers to foods that claim to have specific health care functions or are aimed at supplementing vitamins and minerals, that is, foods that are suitable for specific people, have the function of regulating the body, are not aimed at treating diseases, and do not cause any acute, subacute or chronic harm to the human body.

Food refers to all kinds of finished products and raw materials for human consumption or drinking, as well as articles that are traditionally both food and medicine, but do not include articles for therapeutic purposes.