polychrestic

English edit

polychrestic (comparative more polychrestic, superlative most polychrestic)

(obsolete, homeopathy) Able to be used in various ways.
- 1862, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, page 377:
  Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]
- 1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449:
  Theoretically, at least, sulphur and calcarea should precede any, as it were, organopathic prescription for cancer, and such are the multiform, polychrestic powers of these two drugs that a subkatabolic lesion of such import can hardly be imagined where these twain should not be successively indicated.