Having or designating healing or curative properties or attributes (with against, for); therapeutic; used as a medicine; of or relating to…

Having the property of restoring physical health; remedial, curative, medicinal. Now rare or merged in sense A. 2b.

That heals or cures; curative; salutary.

Having healing or curative properties; = medicinal, adj. poetic and archaic in later use.

Tending to restore strength or health; capable of restoring or renewing.

Having the power to heal; conducive to or promoting health; curative, healing.

That cures or heals; of or relating to curing or healing; = curative, adj.

Capable of remedying something; remedial. Obsolete.

Healing, beneficial.

Disposed to cure; able to cure. Obsolete.

Healing, curative.

That cures or heals.

Tending or having the power to root out or expel (disease, etc.). Const. of.

Of a period of rest or relaxation: salutary, restorative. Frequently in to have a good night: to sleep soundly and restfully.

Beneficial to health; curative, therapeutic. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Possessing medicinal properties or benefits. Now archaic.

That heals or is concerned with healing; curative. rare.

Having the healing properties of balsam; soothing, restorative, health-giving.

= therapeutic, adj. 1. (In first quot. 1606 absol.)

Possessing healing properties.

Having the function or power of curing; curative, healing.

Curative; medicinal.

Of or pertaining to the healing of disease. Also loosely in weakened use.

Conducive to health; chiefly, serving to promote recovery from disease, or to counteract a deleterious influence.

? Healing; or ? preservative (for = against).

Helpful, curative.

Of the nature of a medicine; medicinal. Also, of a book: concerning medicines.

= recuperative, adj. (esp. in sense 3).

Health-giving; healing.

Of the nature of a medicine, medicinal; involving a medicine.

Of the nature of a medicine, medicinal; involving a medicine; = medicamental, adj.

Healing, therapeutic.

Of healing virtue, medicinally soothing.

Healing as with salve, soothing.

Conducive to healing; curative.

Favourable or conducive to health. Of physiological processes: = salutary, adj.

Medicinal, healing.

That has the power of restoring a person to health or a thing to its proper state.