aperient
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Given in doses of half an ounce of the powdered bark, it acts as an aperient, and is good wherever an aperient is indicated.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
In medicine it is employed as an aperient, and is one of the safest and most innocuous known.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
It is much safer than any known cathartic, and, given in doses of two drachms, in hot water, combined with a small quantity of ginger, it forms a useful aperient and alterative.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
An infusion of this herb acts as an aperient, and promotes the secretions.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
Cascara, kas′ka-ra, n. the Cascara sagrada, a Californian bark used as a tonic aperient: the Cascara amarga, a bitter Honduras bark.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
