aperient

• The whole plant is antiseptic, aperient, astringent, diuretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, narcotic, sedative, styptic and sudorific. —  Find Me A Cure
• COLD WATER.--A tumblerful of cold water, taken early every morning, sometimes effectually relieves the bowels; indeed, few people know the value of cold water as an aperient--it is one of the best we possess, and, unlike drug aperients, can never by any possibility do any harm. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• The juice of its berries is aperient, without being irritating, and is well suited as a laxative for persons of delicate constitution. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• The juice is slightly aperient, and abundantly lacteal when mixed with goat's milk, or in gruel. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• A dose of four or five drops, if given at once, and perhaps repeated in fifteen minutes, will straightway prove of singular service Sir Thomas Browne said that in his day the Elder had become a famous medicine for quinsies, sore throats, and strangulations The inspissated juice or "rob" extracted from the crushed berries, and simmered with white sugar, is cordial, aperient, and diuretic. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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