panacea vs cure

panacea and cure both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
panacea	Yes	No	No	No
cure	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cure is a hypernym of panacea; that is, cure is a word with a broader meaning than panacea:

panacea: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
cure: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Other hypernyms of panacea include curative, remedy, therapeutic.

panacea (noun)	cure (noun)
hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists	a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

panacea (verb)	cure (verb)
	provide a cure for, make healthy again
	prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
	be or become preserved
	make (substances) hard and improve their usability