Medication is a medicine. Classification

Medication is a medicine, drug or other substance used to prevent or cure disease or to relieve pain. Medication is often used to mean the act of administering medicine. Other synonyms include pharmacotherapy, pharmacotherapeutics and clinical pharmacology.

Classification

Medication can be usually classified in various ways, e.g. by its chemical properties, mode of administration, or biological system affected. An elaborate and widely used classification system is the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System(ATC system). The types of medicines:

1)Antipyretics : Reducing fever.
2)Analgesics : Painkillers.
3)Anti-malarial drugs : Treating malaria.
4)Antibiotics : Inhibiting germ growth.
5)Antiseptics : Prevention of germ growth near burns,cuts and wounds.