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n. A medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy.

n. A favorite but usually ineffective remedy for problems or evils.

n. A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.

n. An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.

n. A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.

n. Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

n. Any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters.

n. A medicine the ingredients of which, and the method of compounding them, are kept secret, for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; especially, a quack medicine.

n. Hence Any scheme or device of a quack or charlatan.

n. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

n. patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable

"At the end of the day, discounting products is nothing more than a short-term nostrum for a problem that is much more severe and will benefit no one in the end if it isn't accompanied by making sure that there were patients to inject these products into."

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