antidotal

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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2014

Calomel also, which was occasionally resorted to formerly for its antiphlogistic effects upon the intestinal lesions, has been lately recommended in Germany in the treatment of typhoid fever on account of its supposed antidotal properties.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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 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 Fernie, William Thomas

The antidotal character of treacle comes out yet more in these lines of Lydgate: “There is no venom so parlious in sharpnes, As whan it hath of treacle a likenes”.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe