Three years ago, on the morning of their wedding on January 11, entrepreneur couple Alyssa Chesson and Abedin Sham made an unusual visit to a Girgaum-based health and wellness hospital.

The mehendi ceremony the previous day had exhausted them, and they needed a quick-fix of energy for the evening’s function, a fresh glow for their big day. They sat down together to be hooked up to a concoction of essential Vitamin C and B-complexes via an intravenous (IV) drip, bypassing the age-old oral path of popping supplements. “We had never heard of the hospital before,” says 34-year-old Chesson, “but we had seen how people, mostly in Los Angeles, were getting IV drips for energy boosts, and wanted to try.”