A democratic system is not necessarily a panacea for solving problems about people's livelihood.
Cantonese
灵丹妙药
靈丹妙藥
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efficacious elixir; miraculous cure
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
直到现在，还有不少的人，把马克思列宁主义书本上的某些个别字句看作现成的灵丹圣药，似乎只要得了它，就可以不费气力地包医百病。
直到現在，還有不少的人，把馬克思列寧主義書本上的某些個別字句看作現成的靈丹聖藥，似乎只要得了它，就可以不費氣力地包醫百病。
zhí dào xiàn zài ， hái yǒu bù shǎo de rén ， bǎ mǎ kè sī － liè níng zhǔ yì shū běn shàng de mǒu xiē gè bié zì jù kàn zuò xiàn chéng de líng dān shèng yào ， sì hū zhǐ yào dé le tā ， jiù kě yǐ bù fèi qì lì de bāo yī bǎi bìng ．
Even now, there are not a few people who still regard odd quotations from Marxist-Leninist works as a ready-made panacea which, once acquired, can easily cure all maladies.