What are Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Cosmetics?

It is essential to understand the basic definitions of the phases being used by the Health and Wellness Industry to be well informed otherwise there is a chance to get misinformed.

What is a Drug?

A drug, generally speaking, is any substance that engrossed into the body of a living being and alters usual bodily function. In pharmacology, Drug is a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise improve physical or mental health.
The phrase DRUGS is define under Sec 3(b) of The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 as medicine for the inner or outer use of human beings or animals and any substances intended to be used for, or, in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in human beings or animals. It also comprises any article other than food, intended to affect or influence in any way the formation or any organic function of the body of human beings or animals and, any article intended for use as an element of any medicine, substance or article.

Wellness and Health Industry

In today’s aggressive and dynamic world the word “Health” is gaining back its implication. We had ignored the old saying – “Health is Wealth”, however at present, the world and in particular developing countries are rising to the need of the “Health and Wellness Industry”. In general, the nutritive values in most of the foods we eat are not appropriately engrossed by the body, leading to lack of nutrition and therefore infuriating illness and disease.

The Health and Wellness Industry is really a multi-billion dollar industry at present. The basic basis of this industry is the guarantee that we can develop our health using the supremacy of natural products. It is hard enough in our hard lives to keep good health. But lately, our body is not performing this job too well. Our body requires help and protection, the foods that we are eating have more toxins than our body can flush out of our system. Many of the foods we eat are unhygienic. The medicines that are generously suggested by Doctors are to treat an existing problem and symptoms of awful health.