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al·ter·ative

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeuticadjective

    tending to cure or restore to health

    "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"

Wiktionary

  1. alterativenoun

    A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc.

  2. alterativeadjective

    Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.

  3. Etymology: From alterativum, noun use of alterativus.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Alterativeadjective

    Medicines called alterative, are such as have no immediate sensible operation, but gradually gain upon the constitution, by changing the humours from a state of distemperature to health. They are opposed to evacuants. John Quincy

    Etymology: from alter.

    When there is an eruption of humour in any part, it is not cured merely by outward applications, but by such alterative medicines as purify the blood. Government of the Tongue.

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  1. alterative

    An alterative is a substance or treatment that gradually restores health or normal function, usually through altering or purifying the body's processes. They are often used in herbal medicine and can help the body detoxify and heal itself.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Alterativeadjective

    causing ateration

  2. Alterativeadjective

    gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health

  3. Alterativenoun

    a medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations

  4. Etymology: [L. alterativus: cf. F. altratif.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of alterative in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of alterative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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