aperient

An old-fashioned piece of advice in distemper, and one always given, was that at the outset of the disease a dose of castor oil, or some other aperient, should be administered.

Light food and change of air; and, if necessary, aperient medicine, such as castor oil, with a little burned butter.

I have generally given it in lemonade in such amounts as to secure a gentle aperient and diuretic effect.

Sapodilla, sap-ō-dil′a, n. a name given in the West Indies to the fruit of several species of Achras, the seeds aperient and diuretic, the pulp subacid and sweet.

In medicine it is employed as an aperient, and is one of the safest and most innocuous known.