a remedy that counteracts the effects of poison
(usu + to) something that relieves or counteracts something regarded as unpleasant
Art is an antidote to the increasing mechanization of our society
antidotal /-ʹdohtl/ adj
[Middle English antidot via Latin from Greek antidotos, from antididonai to give as an antidote, from anti- + didonai to give]