Therapeutic

therapeutic
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {curative}, {healing(p)}, {alterative}, {remedial},
           {sanative}, {therapeutic}]
    2: relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to
       criminality" [syn: {therapeutic}, {therapeutical}]
    n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
         [syn: {remedy}, {curative}, {cure}, {therapeutic}]
    

Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n.
   One of the Therapeutae.
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Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, Therapeutical \Ther`a*peu"tic*al\,
   a. [F. th['e]rapeutique, Gr. ?, from ? attendant, servant, ?
   to serve, take care of, treat medically, ? attendant,
   servant.] (Med.)
   Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering
   and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or
   curative physic." --Sir T. Browne.
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         Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or
         the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the
         art of restoring it.                     --I. Watts.
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30 Moby Thesaurus words for "therapeutic":
      adjuvant, aidful, alterative, analeptic, beneficial, conducive,
      constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, furthersome,
      good for, healing, healthy, helpful, iatric, medical, medicative,
      medicinal, positive, profitable, remedial, restorative, salubrious,
      salutary, sanative, sanatory, serviceable, theriac, useful