remedial

remedial
    adj 1: tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial
           reading course"; "remedial education"
    2: 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}]
    

Remedial \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), a. [L. remedialis.]
   Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal
   or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
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         Statutes are declaratory or remedial.    --Blackstone.
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         It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
         it is not remedial, not conservative.    --I. Taylor.
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REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which 
is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common 
law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts 
which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. 
    

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "remedial":
      adjuvant, aidful, alleviating, alleviative, alterative, analeptic,
      analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuasive, balmy, balsamic,
      beneficial, benumbing, cathartic, cleansing, conducive,
      constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, curing,
      deadening, demulcent, dulling, easing, emollient, furthersome,
      good for, healing, helpful, iatric, lenitive, medicative,
      medicinal, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing,
      palliative, positive, profitable, purgative, relieving, reparative,
      reparatory, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, salutary,
      sanative, sanatory, serviceable, softening, soothing, subduing,
      therapeutic, theriac, useful, vulnerary, wholesome