Letter T

Therapeutic

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Relating to therapeutics, that part of medicine concerned specifically with the treatment of disease.

The therapeutic dose of a drug is the amount needed to treat a disease.

Something that is therapeutic is good for the individual.

It is often healthy.

For example, a diet high in fiber is therapeutic.

And meditation may be therapeutic.

(I find writing poetry every morning therapeutic.)

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