sanative

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The magnetism of his presence in the military hospitals was more sanative than the doctors' physic.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

The above being stated as the advantages attending the use of the sanative tea in the morning, it is next expedient to consider what benefit is derived from the use of it in the afternoon.

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

After the great revulsion from the excesses of the French Revolution, she was with him a continually sanative influence. 

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell

By a second class of aromatics, with which Dr. Solander composed this sanative tea, is such as have a bitter astringency joined to their volatile oil and salt.

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

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