healful

Adjective

healful (comparative more healful, superlative most healful)

1. Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.
   • healful remedies
   • As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled: […]2008, Bernardo N. De Luca, Mind-Body and Relaxation Research Focus
2. Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe.
   • […] I believe my Father catched [sic] cold on his journey, tho' he was otherways a very strong healful man, for on his return to Pennicuik a boile broke out between his shoulders, which in a very few days turn'd to a Mortification.1892, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society
   • The public conscience demands that they work under healful conditions, with ample light, without overspceding, and with the same provisions for their safety at their work that the employer would desire for himself were he so employed.1913, Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green, The American federationist
3. Affording health or salvation.
   • […] since Christ will not fail to minister, himself, all lawful and healful sacraments, and necessary at all time, and especially at the end, […]1844, John Foxe, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe