[nos-truh
m] 
| 1. | a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine. |
| 2. | a scheme, theory, device, etc., esp. one to remedy social or political ills; panacea. |
| 3. | a medicine made by the person who recommends it. |
| 4. | a patent medicine. |
| nos·trum (nŏs'trəm) n.
[From Latin nostrum (remedium), our (remedy), neuter of noster; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
nostrum nos·trum (nŏs'trəm)
n.
A medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy.