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Hydragogue :: Hydragogue (n.) A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic..

Purgative :: Purgative (a.) Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..

Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..

Emeto-cathartic :: Emeto-cathartic (a.) Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Euonymus :: Euonymus (n.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine..

Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (n.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

Laxative :: Laxative (n.) A laxative medicine. See the Note under Cathartic.

Eccritic :: Eccritic (n.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic..

Colocynth :: Colocynth (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd..

Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..

Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..

Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..

Evacuation :: Evacuation (n.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means..

Bear''s-foot :: Bear's-foot (n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic..

Castor Oil :: Castor oil () A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorous and insipid..

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