antidotal

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

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2014

Its discontinuance was rendered rather necessary by my enthusiasm that led too far in a few cases, but the antidotal effects of certain remedies amply compensated me for my financial and reputational loss.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

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

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

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 Hazlitt, William Carew