Bunu’s Medicine

When you’ve been making money to the point where your incredibly rich

Boy: How did you get that cool jacket?
Boy2: Don’t worry about that
Boy: Life must be great!
Boy2: Yeah I’ve got Bunu’s Medicine 🫡

by bomborassclart3000 May 18, 2024

arabic medicine

Often used by trainee nurses with delusions of adequacy

I studied Arabic medicine- back in my province of India I’m recognised as a doctor

by gussy finknottle July 5, 2021

Medicinal

Etymology: English "medicinal": tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain. < French "médicine": medicine; cure. < Latin "mĕdĭcīna": art and practice of medicine, medicine in general meaning; treatment; remedy, cure.

1 Marijuana in Turkish slang.

Take a puff from our medicinal, nothing will be left

by OldbutGoldPenny July 7, 2021

Medicine Slurs

A modern, passive-aggressive insult derived from mental health discourse, used to dismiss, invalidate, or pathologize someone's emotions, opinions, or online behavior. The phrase "Take your meds" or its variants ("Did you skip your meds?", "Someone's off their lithium") weaponizes psychiatric treatment as a rhetorical cudgel. It implies the target is inherently irrational, unstable, or delusional, and that their legitimate passion, criticism, or unconventional perspective is merely a symptom of non-compliance with medication. This slur reinforces mental health stigma by framing medication as a tool for social compliance and silencing, rather than a personal medical choice.

Example: In a heated political debate on Twitter, User A presents a well-sourced but emotionally charged critique of a policy. Unable to counter the arguments, User B replies, "Lmao, the conspiracy theories are flying today. Take your meds, schizo." The slur doesn't engage the content; it attempts to medically discredit the speaker, associating their intensity with mental illness and suggesting they'd be silent if properly medicated. It's a way of winning an argument by falsely diagnosing your opponent as crazy. Medicine Slurs.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Medicine Bigotry

The underlying prejudiced belief system that makes "medicine slurs" effective: the notion that people who take psychiatric medication are less credible, less rational, and should be quieter. It's the bigotry that equates being medicated with being intellectually or morally deficient, and views medication's primary purpose as making difficult or dissenting people easier to manage. This bigotry stigmatizes both the need for medication and the act of taking it, creating a catch-22 where speaking with passion risks being labeled "unmedicated and unstable," while being openly medicated risks being labeled "too chemically altered to think clearly."

Example: A streamer is open about managing their ADHD with medication. During a live debate, they get rightfully angry about a blatant falsehood. Chat immediately fills with, "Your Vyvanse is talking, not you," and "Calm down, you're overmedicated." The bigotry here frames their legitimate emotional response not as a reaction to dishonesty, but as a pharmaceutical side-effect. It denies their agency and authenticity, reducing their entire persona to a drug interaction, which is both dehumanizing and designed to silence them. Medicine Bigotry.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Quantum Medicine

The application of quantum technologies to diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. This includes ultra-precise imaging using quantum entanglement (allowing MRI-like resolution without harmful magnets), sensors that can detect single biomarker molecules for early disease identification, quantum computers simulating complex drug-protein interactions, and treatments that use targeted quantum tunneling to disrupt pathological cells at the molecular level. It’s medicine that operates on the same scale as the biochemical machinery of life itself.

Example: "The check-up didn't involve blood draws; it was quantum medicine. I sat in a chamber where an entangled photon scanner mapped the spin states of every major molecule in my body, flagged a single pre-cancerous cell in my colon, and scheduled a nanobot injection to remove it tomorrow."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Relativistic Medicine

The medical practice concerned with the biological effects of relativistic travel and high gravity, and the use of relativistic effects for treatment. This includes mitigating the cellular stress of acceleration, managing the asymmetric aging between travelers and those left behind ("twin paradox" syndrome), and using controlled time dilation in medical pods to slow metabolic processes during critical surgery or to allow accelerated healing relative to outside time. It's the ICU for astronauts who have danced too close to the speed of light.

Example: "After his near-c mission, he was admitted for relativistic medicine. His cells were aging out of sync, and his circadian rhythm was tied to a ship's clock that experienced six months for every Earth day. Therapy involved gradual retarding fields and timeline reconciliation counseling."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026