Able to cure illness or provide healing; relating to the treatment or remedy of a disease or condition.
From Latin 'curativus' (healing), from 'curare' (to cure, care for). The word entered English in the medieval period.
Before modern medicine, people searched desperately for 'curative' herbs and springs—believing certain magical places could heal anything.
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