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Medicative

Medicinal; acting like a medicine.

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Healthful 84% connected

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

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Healthful 84% connected

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

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Medicate 74% connected

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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Medicate 74% connected

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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Medicinal 92% connected

Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.

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Active adjective · 78% connection

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…

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Aesculapian adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

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Agent noun · 78% connection

An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a p…

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Antagonist noun · 78% connection

A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

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Antiprotozoal noun · 78% connection

a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa

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Antiprotozoal drug noun · 78% connection

a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa

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Apothecary noun · 78% connection

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

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Asclepias noun · 78% connection

A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.

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Balm verb · 78% connection

To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate.

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Bay rum unknown · 78% connection

A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.

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Bedegar noun · 78% connection

A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). I…

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Belladonna noun · 78% connection

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its f…

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Birthroot noun · 78% connection

An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

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Botanical medicine noun · 78% connection

the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)

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Conium noun · 78% connection

The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America,…

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Deportment noun · 78% connection

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the cou…

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Double-acting adjective · 78% connection

Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

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Duplicity noun · 78% connection

acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

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