How to say "remedy" in Japanese

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  • 療法りょうほうCommon
    nounCovers 'remedy' in the therapeutic sense: a therapy or method of treatment, a particular approach to curing a condition. Use it when the remedy is a course or system of treatment.
    Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.
  • 矯正きょうせいCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbHandles 'remedy' as the correction or rectification of a fault, defect, or flaw, and the redress of wrongs. Use it when the remedy means putting something bad or defective right.
    眼鏡めがねをかければ君きみの視力しりょくは矯正きょうせいされるだろう。↗
    Wearing glasses should correct your vision.
  • 仕様しようJLPT N1approx.Common
    nounEssentially never the word you want for 'remedy': it means a way, method, or means of doing something, and in technical fields a specification. It matches 'remedy' only through the marginal 'resource' sense.
  • 治療法ちりょうほうCommon
    nounThe natural choice for 'remedy' in the medical sense: a method of treatment, a cure for an illness. Typical context: saying whether a remedy for a disease exists or not.
    どんな治療ちりょう法ほうを受うけることになりますか。↗
    What kind of treatment will I get?
  • 治療ちりょうJLPT N1approx.Common
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers 'remedy' as medical treatment or care itself — the treating of a patient — rather than a specific method. Choose it when you mean the process of treating an illness, as in receiving treatment.
    治療ちりょうよりも予防よぼう。↗
    Prevention is better than cure.

For medical 'remedy' pick 治療法 for a method or cure, 治療 for treatment as care, and 療法 for a therapy as an approach; 矯正 is for remedying faults or defects, while 仕様 is rarely about remedies at all.

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Japanese equivalents
  • 療法りょうほう(method of) treatment
  • 矯正きょうせいcorrection (of a fault, defect, flaw, etc.)
  • 仕様しようway
  • 治療法ちりょうほうmethod of treatment
  • 治療ちりょう(medical) treatment
  • 善後策ぜんごさくremedial measure
  • 匡正きょうせいcorrection (of a fault, mistake, flaw, etc.)
  • 治療薬ちりょうやくtherapeutic agent
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