Mushonga (chemical in English) ungava mushonga wokurapisa kana unoshandiswa mune mamwe mabasa pamusha kana muhushangazhi. Muchidzidzo chemishonga kana nemvura nemweya watinofema unopindawo pamupanda wemishonga.

Kutsauranisa Mashoko

• Shoko rokuti muchetura rinonyanya kushandiswa kutaura mushonga unouraya, kukora kana kukuvadza uchinge waiswa pachikafu chokudya. Kuchetura zvinoreva kuisira munhu mushonga muchokudya.

• Shoko rokuti chefu rinotaura mishonga inokuvadza kusanganisira: muchetura; nemiwme mishonga yokufemba kana kufema.

• Kupinga zvinotaura mushonga unoshandiswa kudzivirira chirwere chisati chatanga - immunization inganzi imhando yokupinga.
• Fumbo (Medicine to produce unconsciousness).
• Rufimbi (ansesthetic).
• Hwanga kana kuti uroyi mushonga unoshandiswa kukuvadza vamwe.
• Rukata (medicine ground and strewn on coals to prevent sickness).
• Muchidzo kana muchidza (remedy e.g. for cough or difficult situation).
• Murimo (Herbal medine, generally liquid).
• Muti.
• Mutombo (chemical) apa kureva mushonga.
• Mupfumbwe (poison in powder form).
• Mbandani (poison dissolved in liquid form).
• Mushonga Mbarikwa kana mishonga mubarikwa (Generic medicines or drugs)???. Mishonga uyu imbarikwa: this is a generic drug. Kana mushonga uri mbarikwa kureva kuti wakagadzirwa uchitodzana neumwe wagara uripo, asi une musiyano zvishoma. Mazwi aya haako kuChishona semashandisirwo ari pano - uku kuzama kuumba mutauro chete.

Kurerutsa Mutauro

• Mombe dzakadya chepfu ndokufuma dzakati chinjinji: the cattle ate poison and in the morning they were Iying dead with legs in the air.
• Mazwi ekuti shongwe, kushongedza anodaro achibva padzitsi rimwero nokuti mushonga.

Tsumo

• Mushonga haubati pasina ronda. Medicine does not work where there is no wound.

Mitauro yeBantu

• Mang'anja vanoti mankwala (n. physic - any medicine or drug). Mang'anja vanoti kuchiriza (v. cure) vachireva kuporesa.
• VaNyungwe vanoti mankhwala (remedy). Sangho vanoti londa (n. formula). VaBukusu vanoti kámaasúúswa (n. medicine).
• VaLenje vanoti wuanga kana wanga (drugs, medicines, poison). Mamwe mazwi: musamo (drug, medicine). Swahili vanoti unga (Powder).
• Kikongo vanoti songesa (v. rectify, make or prove right, to correct, revise, vindicate). Mamwe mazwi: songa (justice, uprightness, rectitude, correctness, integrity, virtue, honesty, propriety).
• Luganda vanoti eddagala (n. Chemical).