curative
adjective
noun
Origin of curative
Related Words for curative
remedial, corrective, invigorating, healthful, salutary, therapeutic, medicinal, tonic, curing, pick-me-up, restorative, beneficial, helpful, wholesome, alleviative, medicable, medicative, remedying, sanative, vulneraryExamples from the Web for curative
Contemporary Examples of curative
But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.
Predator Doctors Take Advantage of Patients With ‘Chronic Lyme’ ScamRussell Saunders
September 19, 2014
For thousands of years men and women in many cultures have used cannabis as a curative and a source of fiber and oil.
Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.
Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn credited kombucha with curative properties in his novel The Cancer Ward.
Since the liver regenerates, “that can be curative—or at least it can let patients do a lot better.”
Historical Examples of curative
And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
And if it did promote perspiration, one can well believe that it might be curative.
StoryologyBenjamin Taylor
The psychological work of the physician does not begin with his curative efforts.
PsychotherapyHugo Mnsterberg
The curative effect on bodily disabilities is thus often an illusory one.
PsychotherapyHugo Mnsterberg
The envoy's description of Francis's curative power is interesting.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)Henry Martyn Baird