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"healing" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often therapeutic (11 letters).
Definitions
tending to cure or restore to health
Word origin
From Middle English heelinge, helynge, from Old English hǣling (“healing”), from Proto-Germanic *hailingō (“healing”), from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal”), equivalent to heal + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian hieling (“healing”), Dutch heling (“healing”), German Heilung (“healing; cure”).
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