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The difference between health care and treatment?
Drugs are 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 care products, also known as health food, refer to foods with specific health care functions or for the purpose of supplementing vitamins and minerals. Is suitable for specific people to eat, has the function of regulating the body, does not aim at treating diseases, and does not cause any acute, subacute or chronic harm to the human body. Mainly absorbed through the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract.

Health care is to regulate the function of the body, which can be regarded as an auxiliary means of treatment.