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Definition of salutary:

Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

Synonyms:

proficient, full, right, profitable, salubrious, estimable, vigorous, wholesome, healthy, dear, benefic, health, useful, secure, upright, adept, undecomposed, honorable, practiced, skillful, sound, skilful, healthsome, expert, unspoilt, in effect, serious, well, just, safe, sanitary, beneficial, strong, ripe, near, helpful, hearty, unspoiled, nutritious, propitious, in force, effective, advantageous, toward, dependable, healthful, benignant, help, hale, hygienic, beneficent, good, respectable, favorable, honest.

beneficial (part of speech: adjective)
- remedial,
- helpful,
- restorative,
- tonic,
- curative,
- invigorating,
- bracing,
- advantageous

Usage examples:

The antients very gratefully gave the merit of every useful and salutary invention to the Gods.

- "A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)", Jacob Bryant.
In 1840 he received a call from the L. J. S. to go as a missionary to Berlin, where, by his learning and piety and loving disposition, he made a salutary impression upon the Jews.

- "Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ", Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D..
Therefore inflammation in itself is not to be considered a disease, but a salutary operation consequent either to some violence or to some disease.

- "The American Reformed Cattle Doctor", George Dadd.