medicate

verb2

1. •
   To prescribe or administer medication to.
2. •
   To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.

   • I started to think of food as my friend instead of my foe. It medicates my body. Every bite of food I intake I think of how it is going to make me stronger and help all my organs function. — 1998