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medicinal

adjective as in curative

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Regardless of your personal opinion on it, there are studies that prove this controversial plant has a handful of medicinal benefits.

All that variability, both in the plants and the products that are derived from them, makes CBD more challenging to test for medicinal purposes.

Being able to see each other on screen and have a good time, that’s been really medicinal for me.

From Vox

Among them are Northern Michigan and Minot State universities, which offer undergraduate degrees in medicinal plant chemistry.

It has neither the addictive properties nor the lack of medicinal value that such categorization demands.

From Fortune

The chicken, to this day, is valued for its medicinal properties.

Cruikshank often speaks about the potential of yoga to be therapeutic — even medicinal.

Wikipedia has an entire entry on medicinal clays, though many are of the mud-bath variety.

They have long since been touted as medicinal fungi, boasting the ability to strengthen the immune system and lower cholesterol.

Beginning in 2000, California funded 12-odd studies through the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, based at UC San Diego.

Poets and dramatists sung its praises, while others wrote of its wonderful medicinal qualities.

Spenser in his Fairy Queen makes one of the characters include it with other herbs celebrated for medicinal qualities.

Medicinal doses of the bromides produce in healthy persons a general diminution of nervous energy.

There are more than twenty species of rosin-weed or silphium, all probably similar in their medicinal virtues.

Three species are usually mentioned as being used for medicinal purpose.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to medicinal, such as: aesculapian, curing, healing, medical, medicative, and pharmaceutic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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