healthful

adjectives

conducive to good health of body or mind
"a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
healthful
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healthfulness
antonym
unhealthful
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capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms
anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal
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capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms
antimicrobial, antimicrobic
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relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping)
carminative, flatus-relieving
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emotionally purging
cathartic, psychotherapeutic
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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"
alterative, curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
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without the use of drugs
"drugless therapy"
drugless
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tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
"beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air"
good, salutary
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having the properties of medicine
"medicative drugs"; "medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties"
medicative, medicinal
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simple and healthful and close to nature
"an organic lifestyle"
organic
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designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals
"orthomolecular medicine"; "orthomolecular therapy"
orthomolecular
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preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
"preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"
preventative, preventive, prophylactic
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promoting recuperation
"recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise"
recuperative, restorative
see also
thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms
"doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"
antiseptic
see also
conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being
"wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"
wholesome
free from filth and pathogens
"sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"
healthful, sanitary
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healthfulness