Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic.
- noun A medicine which purges gently, or which tends to promote evacuations by stool; a laxative.
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The root is astringent, stomachic, and eccoprotic.
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