Remedy x Medicine: Qual a diferença

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The following is restricted to health-related uses. This is what my ear tells me.

Remedy, medicine, and medication have the same basic definition: something that will stop and illness and make you feel better. However, context determines which term (or terms) are preferred.

Remedy is often used to describe something natural, something prepared and used at home. If you have a bad cold and your grandmother gives you hot lemonade to drink, she has given you a home remedy. If your horse cuts a leg and you apply moss or tobacco, you using a remedy (or home remedy).

If your doctor gives you pills for your cold, he has given you medicine or medication. Medication seems to be the preferred word when a doctor is involved.

If have surgery and have taken something for the pain, you are under medication.

If you take two pills each day for hypertension, you are on medication.

The pharmacy sells medicines and medications.

If you do not need a prescription from a doctor to buy something, it is an "across-the-counter" medicine/medication/drug.