The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vulnerary \Vul"ner*a*ry\, a. [L. vulnearius: cf. F.
vuln['e]raire.]
Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external
injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. ``Such vulnerary
remedies.''
--Sir W. Scott. -- n. [Cf. F. vuln['e]raire.]
(Med.) A vulnerary remedy.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative. 2 (context archaic rare English) Causing wounds, wounding. n. A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
Usage examples of "vulnerary".
It was formerly applied to raw indolent ulcers as a glutinous astringent, and most useful vulnerary.
Greek botanists, by whom it was valued as an excellent astringent and vulnerary.
In old times the Water figwort was famous as a vulnerary, both when used externally, and when taken in decoction.
Each of these was applied as a vulnerary, not to sloughing sores, but to fresh cut wounds.
He also doubled your memory with antifebrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic robor-ants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel’s Epulotic Vulnerary.
He also doubled your memory with antifebrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic roborants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel's Epulotic Vulnerary.
He also doubled your memory with antifebrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic roborants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel’s Epulotic Vulnerary.
The Moonwort is said to possess similar vulnerary virtues to Adder's Tongue.
It was at one time included in the London Materia Medica as a vulnerary herb, but modern official medicine does not recognize its virtues, though it is still fully appreciated in herbal practice as a mild astringent and tonic, useful in coughs, diarrhoea and relaxed bowels.
He also doubled your memory with anti-febrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic roborants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel's Epulotic Vulnerary.