All catholicon synonyms

noun catholicon

• cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
• panacea — an ancient Greek goddess of healing.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
• quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
• remedy — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
• panacea — an ancient Greek goddess of healing.
• treatment — an act or manner of treating.
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• antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
• healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
• placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
• magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
• medication — the use or application of medicine.
• recovery — an act of recovering.
• reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
• nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
• alleviation — an alleviating or being alleviated
• assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• medicament — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
• physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
• therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
• proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
• countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
• potion — a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• formula — a set form of words, as for stating or declaring something definitely or authoritatively, for indicating procedure to be followed, or for prescribed use on some ceremonial occasion.
• relief — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
• counteractant — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
• counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
• medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
• patent medicine — a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
• theriac — molasses; treacle.