curing

Etymology 1

From cure + -ing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of cure

Etymology 2

From Middle English curyng, curinge, equivalent to cure + -ing.

noun

1. The act by which something is cured.
   As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings. 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183