Synonyms:
curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
Meaning: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
Meaning: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Usage examples
likewise, Apis will prove a curative agent.
These are the only exceptions to the curative power of this drug.
Thanks to the curative powers of Apis, scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood.
The curative indications contained in the "American Provings," have been confirmed by my own experience.
Saliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.
In this way I succeeded in developing the curative powers of Apis, so that in a few days a gradual improvement, however slight, became perceptible to the careful observer.
Their veterinary practice was mostly by charms and incantations; and when a person believed himself bewitched, a shot at the image of the witch with a bullet melted out of a half-dollar was the favorite curative agency.