Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Alterative has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc.
tending to cure or restore to health
"curative powers of herbal remedies"
"her gentle healing hand"
"remedial surgery"
"a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"
"a therapeutic agent"
"therapeutic diets"
Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.