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Definition of curative:

Tending to cure.
Tending, or having the power, to heal.

Synonyms:

remedial, clinical, remediation, therapeutic, sanative, broad-spectrum, healthful, alterative, bloodless, officinal, aseptic, antenatal, antimalarial, redress, restorative, combination, bionic, health, antibacterial, healing, cure, clear, remedy.

remedial (part of speech: adjective)
- medicated,
- corrective,
- remedial,
- medicinal,
- pharmaceutical,
- therapeutic,
- germicidal,
- healing,
- tonic

Usage examples:

It is not advisable for persons little acquainted with the use of water as a curative, to let the patient stay very long in the sitz- bath, it being safer to pack the patient again, and to repeat the sitz- bath after the pack, if his delirium is not removed, or not lessened in half an hour or three- quarters of an hour.

- "Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms", Charles Munde.
It would remove one of the fundamental causes for dull times, for lack of employment, and for poverty, and therefore would have a more permanent and far- reaching effect upon these misfortunes than any of the curative remedies that are now being used to soften their consequences.

- "The Principles of Scientific Management", Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Electricity and magnetism met this fate, and mesmerism was at first thought to be a curative agent for all diseases.

- "Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science", Hudson Tuttle.