The role of medical care

Health food contains a certain amount of functional ingredients, which can regulate human functions and have specific effects, and is suitable for specific people to eat. General food has no specific function and no specific scope for human consumption.

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

According to their functions, health foods can be divided into three categories: human mechanism regulation, longevity, weight loss, adjuvant therapy and other nutritional types.

No matter what kind of health food, it has the characteristics of self-help and no quick response, but it will benefit people if taken for a long time.

There are many ways to prepare raw materials for health food. In recent years, Chinese herbal medicines have appeared as raw materials and have been used for human health care since ancient times. The ancients divided Chinese herbal medicine into top-grade medicine, middle-grade medicine and inferior medicine. Top-grade drugs are used for human health care, and Chinese and inferior drugs are combined to treat diseases according to monarch, minister, assistant and envoy. "Shennong Materia Medica" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Taking medicine to nourish life is non-toxic, and taking it many times will not hurt people. If you want to be fit and benefit qi, you should go to the classics if you are not old. " . Tao Hongjing, a famous doctor in the Southern Dynasties, said, "Top-grade medicinal properties can also cure diseases. But strength and thickness are not immediate effects. Years of continuous service will benefit a lot. " . Other Chinese herbal medicines are generally poisonous. It can be seen that the ancients won the essence of using Chinese herbal medicine for human health care.

The development, production and management of health food are different from medicines, especially those made of Chinese herbal medicines. Health food can't take effect as quickly as medicine, but it must be non-toxic.