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