Synonyms: healthful
Definition: conducive to good health of body or mind
Usage: a healthful climate; a healthful environment; healthful nutrition; healthful sleep; Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance
Similar words: helminthic, anthelminthic, anthelmintic, parasiticidal
Definition: capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms
Similar words: antimicrobial, antimicrobic
Definition: capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms
Similar words: carminative, flatus-relieving
Definition: relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping)
Similar words: psychotherapeutic, cathartic
Definition: emotionally purging
Similar words: sanative, curative, alterative, healing, remedial, therapeutic
Definition: tending to cure or restore to health
Usage: curative powers of herbal remedies; her gentle healing hand; remedial surgery; a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air; a therapeutic agent; therapeutic diets
Similar words: drugless
Definition: without the use of drugs
Usage: drugless therapy
Definition: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
Usage: beneficial effects of a balanced diet; a good night's sleep; the salutary influence of pure air
Similar words: medicative, medicinal
Definition: having the properties of medicine
Usage: medicative drugs; medicinal herbs; medicinal properties
Similar words: organic
Definition: simple and healthful and close to nature
Usage: an organic lifestyle
Similar words: orthomolecular
Definition: designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals
Usage: orthomolecular medicine; orthomolecular therapy
Similar words: prophylactic, preventative, preventive
Definition: preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
Usage: preventive medicine; vaccines are prophylactic; a prophylactic drug
Similar words: recuperative, restorative
Definition: promoting recuperation
Usage: recuperative powers; strongly recuperative remedies; restorative effects of exercise
Definition: free from filth and pathogens
Usage: sanitary conditions for preparing food; a sanitary washroom
Similar words: hygienic, hygienical
Definition: tending to promote or preserve health
Usage: hygienic habits like using disposable tissues; hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air