Acting against or serving as a treatment for strumous conditions, such as thyroid swelling or scrofula.
From anti- (against) + strumous (from Latin struma, swelling). This is a variant adjectival form emphasizing the disease-fighting property.
Antistrumous remedies appear in historical medical texts—seaweed, certain herbs, and eventually iodine were touted as cures, showing how people understood swelling long before germ theory!
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