- 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...
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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...
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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...
