antidotal
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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
Percival concludes, not unreasonably, that during its absence, it had found the antidotal herb, and eaten of it.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
The knowledg of these antidotal Herbs they have learned from the Mounggoutia a kind of Ferret.
Sir Thomas Brown was not prepared to contradict it: he says, that "Lapis Lasuli hath in it a purgative faculty, we know: that Bezoar is antidotal, Lapis Judaicus diuretical, Coral antipileptical, we will not deny."
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
The likelihood is that whatever virtue the red clover can boast for counteracting a scrofulous disposition, and as antidotal to cancer, resides in its highly-elaborated lime, silica, and other earthy salts.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie