What are the business scopes of medical herbal therapy preparations

At present, the business scope of medical herbal therapy preparation-related entities operating in compliance with domestic regulations usually covers the three core sectors of hospital-end distribution of Class II/Category III herbal preparations with brand names, retail sales of herbal-related care products with consumer brands, and supporting herbal physiotherapy-related service projects. The specific boundaries all depend on the category of qualification registration, and there is no unified standard answer.

To be honest, nine out of ten of my friends who work in this field have encountered pitfalls of exceeding the scope of their business at the beginning. Lao Zhou, who previously opened a community herbal physiotherapy center, initially only listed health care services and the sale of Class I equipment on his business license. He felt that the herbal lumbar patches from JI II were all stickers anyway, similar to Class I heating patches, so he secretly bought a batch and sold them. Within two weeks, he was inspected by the city supervisor and was fined more than RMB 20,000 for the goods. Later, he completed the business registration of Class II medical devices before he dared to continue selling them. If you are a trading company that supplies to hospitals and clinics, your business scope must include drug wholesale and third-category medical device related categories. If it involves imported herbal medical preparations, you must also register for import and export operations. Otherwise, the goods will be directly detained when passing through customs, and you will not even have access qualifications.

The most controversial thing in the industry now is the boundary between the word "medical". Many merchants rely on the concept of "medical herbal therapy preparations" for herbal substitute teas under the food brand and herbal skin care creams under the makeup brand, and only use side effects to promote the efficacy. In fact, the regulatory level has long made it clear that only using Only products with a registered trademark and medical approval can be labeled with the words "medical" and "treatment." If you do not have a drug business license in your business scope, even common herbal Chinese medicine pieces cannot be sold as medicinal products, and can only be sold as edible agricultural products, and they will never have any therapeutic effect. Oh, by the way, if you want to provide herbal preparation service, it depends on its nature. If you prepare ordinary herbal care compresses for consumers on-site, then the health care category is enough. If you prepare preparations according to medical prescriptions, you must have the qualifications of a medical institution. This line cannot be crossed.