anodyne

kipulääke

tuskia lievittävä capable Capable of soothe soothing or eliminating pain. (defdate)
1847, Littells Living Age'', number 161, 12 June 1847, in Volume 13, page 483:

Many a time has the vapor of ether been inhaled for the relief of oppressed lungs; many a time has the sought relief been thus obtained; and just so many times has the discovery of the wonderful anodyne properties of this gas, as affecting all bodily suffering, been brushed past and overlooked.

The citrate is the most efficient as an alkali, but irritates some stomachs, the liquor the most anodyne, the acetate the most diuretic.

Classical music is rather anodyne.

It all became so routine, so anodyne, so dull.

States typically like to stick to anodyne messages, like saving wildflowers or animals. But every so often a controversy crops up.

The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain.

So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.