antiphlogistic

adj

1. Counteracting inflammation.

   “Messengers went off for her physician and medical man. They came, consulted, prescribed, vanished. The young companion of Miss Crawley, at the conclusion of their interview, came in to receive their instructions, and administered those antiphlogistic medicines which the eminent men ordered.”

2. Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

noun

1. A plant or remedy that reduces inflammation.

   “Inflammatory glossocele must be combated by antiphlogistics.”