restorative

adj

1. Serving to restore.

   “After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.”

   “Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.”

   “Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.”

   “Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.”

noun

1. Something with restoring properties.

   “Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.”

   “For Louis XIV's advancing age, a drink consisting of sugar, distilled spirits, and orange water was recommended as a restorative of vigor.”

2. (euphemistic)An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.