From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
therapeutic
adj 1: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of
herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial
surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh
air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn:
curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial,
sanative, therapeutic]
2: relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to
criminality" [syn: therapeutic, therapeutical]
n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]