As you know, normally refers to an actual medicine, while is an act of encouraging used normally when someone gets sick, but not limited to the case.
Basically 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 " ≅ falling down" when I want to get " ≅ turned down".