1. Tending to cure or restore to health
   "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets";
   - curative, healing, alterative, remedial, sanative, sanatory
    
2. Relating to or involved in therapy
   "therapeutic approach to criminality";
   - therapeutical

1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
   "The new antibiotic proved to be an effective therapeutic for the infection";
   - remedy, curative, cure

Derived forms: therapeutics

See also: healthful

Type of: med [informal], medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine

Part of: intervention, treatment

Encyclopedia: Therapeutic