Promoting health and healing; wholesome and beneficial to recovery from illness or injury.
From Old English 'hæl' (health) plus '-some' (characterized by, full of). A rare or archaic formation parallel to 'wholesome,' using an older suffix pattern to create adjectives from nouns.
'Healsome' is delightfully archaic—it belongs in fantasy novels where wise herbalists prescribe 'healsome broths'—but it reminds us that older English had more flexible word-building patterns!
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