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.