sanative

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When Braid discovered that hypnosis could be induced without passes, the mesmerists felt that their theory of a sanative effluence was dangerously attacked.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Then human duties, lowly though they may be, have their sanative and salutary influence on our whole frame of being.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

With this scientific principle Dr. Solander having composed his sanative tea, has rendered it the most general specific in its effects of any medicinal aliment.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh

Notwithstanding their ruinous condition, they were crowded with sick, hoping to derive benefit from the waters, which are still famed for their sanative power. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming, sanative energy" of great potency and power.

From The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Trine, Ralph Waldo