- 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...
-
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...
- co-dominant in the
calcareous shrublands in
which it occurs, it is a
purgative.
Botanical illustration Habit Spent flower "Globularia
alypum L." Plants...
-
inscribed with
writing that "[set]
forth [the
price of]
vegetables and
purgatives for the
workmen there were paid out over
sixteen hundred talents." The...
- con****uous
enlarged sepals and
thickened pedicles. It is
actually not a
purgative but a mild laxative.
Merremia turpethum,
Medicinal Plants of
Andhra Pradesh...
- Africa. It is one of
several Aloe
species used to make
bitter aloes, a
purgative medication, and also
yields a non-bitter gel that can be used in cosmetics...
-
surgeon James Woodall to
treat extreme cases of
severe constipation where purgatives had failed.
Woodall believed that the
cause of this
malady was from scurvy...
- been
believed useful as a
treatment for malaria, an abortifacient, a
purgative, or
smoked to
relieve asthma.
Babaco Contreras, A. (2016). "Carica papaya"...
