Definition of Purgative. Meaning of Purgative. Synonyms of Purgative

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Definition of Purgative

Purgative
Purgative Pur"ga*tive, a. [L. purgativus: cf. F. purgatif.] Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n. (Med.) A purging medicine; a cathartic.

Meaning of Purgative from wikipedia

- Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements. They are used to treat and prevent constipation. Laxatives...
- vision of God; deification; union with God The three aspects later became purgative, illuminative, and unitive in the western churches and prayer of the lips...
- Black draught (Latin: Haustous) was a patent medicine used as a purgative in the 19th century and well into the early part of the 20th century, with veterinarians...
- co-dominant in the calcareous shrublands in which it occurs, it is a purgative. Botanical illustration Habit Spent flower "Globularia alypum L." Plants...
- treatments he was given, which included multiple doses of calomel (a purgative) and extensive bloodletting, likely resulting in hypovolemic shock. Washington's...
- Galen (2nd century AD) disagreed with the use of surgery and recommended purgatives instead. These recommendations largely stood for 1000 years. In the 15th...
- 1578 as "lignum pavanae". The oil, used in herbal medicine as a violent purgative, is extracted from its seeds. Currently, it is considered unsafe and it...
- inscribed with writing that "[set] forth [the price of] vegetables and purgatives for the workmen there were paid out over sixteen hundred talents." The...
- acid. Ricinolein is the active principle in the use of castor oil as a purgative and solvent for several medically useful alkaloids. Achaya, K. T.; Saletore...
- use of m**** advertising to build consumer awareness of his product, a purgative that allegedly cured many ills by purging toxins out of the blood. Brandreth...