remedy

:  to provide or serve as a remedy for :  relieve remedy a social evil

1 :  a medicine or treatment that cures or relieves

2 :  something that corrects a problem

:  to provide or serve as a cure or solution for An explanation remedied the confusion.

:  a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease

:  the means to enforce a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong :  the relief (as damages, restitution, specific performance, or an injunction) that may be given or ordered by a court or other tribunal for a wrong if the contract is null and void, the remedy is to rescind and to put the parties in the position in which they were prior to the attempted agreement — First Nat'l Mortgage Corp. v. The Manhattan Life Ins. Co., 360 So. 2d 264 (1978) specific performance and other equitable remedies

:  to provide or serve as a remedy for