medicine
noun
uk/ˈmedɪsən/ us [ U ]
the treatment of illness or injury, or the study of how illnesses and injuries are treated:
Medicine has advanced enormously over the past 100 years.
alternative/complementary/preventive medicine
[ C or U ]
a drug that is used to treat illness or injury:
Producing new medicines is an enormously complex and costly process.
The President announced that he would send $320 million worth of food and medicine to the region.
over-the-counter/prescription medicine(s)