the science and art of the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease, esp using nonsurgical methods
a substance or preparation used in treating or preventing disease
among some peoples, an object held to have remedial or magical properties, or the magical power of such an object; a charm or fetish
give somebody a taste/dose of their own medicine
to treat somebody in the same unpleasant way that they have treated somebody else
take one's medicine
to accept one's punishment; to submit to something unpleasant
[Middle English via Old French from Latin medicina, fem of medicinus of a physician, from medicus physician]