vulnerary means useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
VULNERARY — [Adjective] Useful for healing or treating wounds. From the Latin vulnerārius ("of or pertaining to wounds"), from vulnus ("wound"). Unlike "curative," a general term for any remedy, or "vulnerable," which names the state of being woundable, "vulnerary" dwells solely in the aftermath—the quiet, specific promise of mending a breach. It is the cool poultice of comfrey leaves, the precise sting of antiseptic on raw skin, and the patient pressure of a clean bandage—a word not for the injury, but for the deliberate, merciful work of its closing.
adj
- Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.“Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.”
- Causing wounds; wounding.
noun
- A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.“On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.”