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

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

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