Medicine. That has the property of allaying, assuaging, or soothing.

Of medicines and medical appliances: Tending to allay or soften; mitigating, soothing; gently laxative; esp. in lenitive electuary.

Softening, soothing, relaxing, both in a material and immaterial sense; emollient. †Const. of. Somewhat archaic.

Tending to alleviate or soothe; soothing.

(attributive)

Soothing, lenitive, mollifying, allaying irritation.

= demulcent, adj.

Of medical applications, drugs, etc.; spec. soothing powder (in quot. figurative); soothing syrup, a medicinal preparation supposed to calm fretful…