vulnerary

Etymology

From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound”).

adj

1. Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
   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. 1819, Walter Scott, chapter 28, in Ivanhoe
   Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus. 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 422 (footnote)
2. (archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding.

noun

1. 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. 1757, John Rutty, A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, Comprehending the Most Celebrated Medicinal Waters, both Cold and Hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other Parts of the World, London: Printed for William Johnston, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 494