Folks, you're arguing/debating the definition of the word "cure". What's the point? Please see the definition below from yahoo.com, I leave it to you to come to your own conclusions. Next topic? TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To restore to health. 2. To effect a recovery from: cure a cold. 3. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure an evil. 4. To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging. 5. To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process. 6. To vulcanize (rubber). INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To effect a cure or recovery: a medicine that cures. 2. To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process: hams curing in the smokehouse.