Medicinal vs Therapeutic - What's the difference?
medicinal | therapeutic |
Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
Tasting like medicine; particularly of sweetish artificial flavours similar to cherry, almond or licorice.
Of, or relating to therapy.
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Isaac Watts
As adjectives the difference between medicinal and therapeutic
is that medicinal is having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical while therapeutic is of, or relating to therapy.As a noun medicinal
is any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.medicinal
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Adjective
(-)See also
* salutaryAnagrams
* ----therapeutic
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Alternative forms
* therapeutick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Therapeutic or curative physic.
- Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic , or the art of restoring it.