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 Gosse, Philip Henry

The knowledg of these antidotal Herbs they have learned from the Mounggoutia a kind of Ferret.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

Your letters would be antidotal, and thus, by a sort of mental allopathy, beneficial.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer

The scrofula to which the Water-cress and its allied plants are antidotal, got its name from scrofa, "a burrowing pig," signifying the radical destruction of important glands in the body by this undermining constitutional disease.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas