EGAVE

alterative

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Causing alteration. Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state into a healthy one.
  3. adjective Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state into a healthy one.

Similar words

healing therapeutic healthful curative sanative remedial diaphoretic allopathic medicine allopathy abortive

Often followed by

and in action influence effect doses to course medicines

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