Associations to the word «Nostrum»

Wiktionary

NOSTRUM, noun. A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.
NOSTRUM, noun. An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.
NOSTRUM REMEDIUM, noun. Any folk medicine, or popular cure that is not tested, especially one not used in medicine.

Dictionary definition

NOSTRUM, noun. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists.
NOSTRUM, noun. Patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King