paregoric vs medication

paregoric and medication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
paregoric	Yes	No	No	No
medication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, medication is a hypernym of paregoric; that is, medication is a word with a broader meaning than paregoric:

paregoric: medicine used to treat diarrhea
medication: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of paregoric include medicament, medicinal drug, medicine.

paregoric (noun)	medication (noun)
medicine used to treat diarrhea	the act of treating with medicines or remedies
	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease