a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.

any medicine; a drug or medicament.

Archaic . the medical art or profession.

Obsolete . natural science.

to treat with or act upon as a physic or medicine.

to work upon as a medicine does; relieve or cure.

noun

elixir , medicament , medication , medicine , nostrum , remedy

verb

dose , medicate , narcotize , opiate