Difference between お見舞い and 薬


What is the difference between お見舞い and 薬? Both are translated as "medicine"
by Google Translate

I guess that お見舞い is more like a treatment while 薬 is actual medicine people
take




As you know, 薬 normally refers to an actual medicine, while お見舞い is an act of
encouraging used normally when someone gets sick, but not limited to the case.

Basically お見舞い implies you see how they are going, giving a book or food to
get them well and so on. It is rather an act and not necessarily a substance
you can buy for a treatment at the pharmacy.

As for Google Translate, you should provide a sentence for a better
translation. Using Google Translate at work, with only one word like
"decline", I get "低下 ≅ falling down" when I want to get "拒否 ≅ turned down".




As you know, 薬 normally refers to an actual medicine, while お見舞い is an act of
encouraging used normally when someone gets sick, but not limited to the case.

Basically お見舞い implies you see how they are going, giving a book or food to
get them well and so on. It is rather an act and not necessarily a substance
you can buy for a treatment at the pharmacy.

As for Google Translate, you should provide a sentence for a better
translation. Using Google Translate at work, with only one word like
"decline", I get "低下 ≅ falling down" when I want to get "拒否 ≅ turned down".

