MEDICINE

(SUBSTANCE) [noun] - a substance which is drunk or swallowed as a treatment for illness or injuryOne of my medicines tastes of strawberries. [C]She knows quite a lot about herbal medicines. [C]Take two spoonfuls of cough medicine. [U]An international appeal for food and medicine has been launched for the people left homeless by the floods. [U]If you give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine, you treat them as badly as they have treated you.The bully got/needs/was given a dose of his own medicine.