hydragogue

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Its action is diuretic and hydragogue-cathartic.

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  1. In medicine: An active purgative, as jalap, which produces a great flux from the intestinal membrane, and consequently gives rise to very watery stools.
  2. A remedy believed to be capable of drawing off serum effused into any part of the body, as a cathartic of the above class or a diuretic.

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  • At this locality, therefore, a puncture may be made through the thoracic walls, directly into the distended pericardium, for the escape of its fluid contents, if such proceeding be in other respects deemed prudent and advisable The abdominal cavity being very frequently the seat of dropsical effusion, when this takes place to any great extent, despite the continued and free use of the medicinal diuretic and the hydragogue cathartic, the surgeon is required to make an opening with the instrumental hydragogue--viz., the trocar and cannula. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • Its action is diuretic and hydragogue-cathartic. —  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • -- The root is a hydragogue cathartic even in minute doses. —  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • -- The part employed is the fruit pulp, official in all the pharmacopoeias as a very energetic hydragogue cathartic. —  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • The bark is a bitter hydragogue cathartic and is given in decoction (5-10 grams to —  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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  1. from French hydragogue, from Late Latin hydragogus, conducting water, a plant so called, from Greek ὑδραγωγός, conducting water, a water-carrier, an aqueduct, from ύδωρ (ὑδρ-), water, + ἀγωγός, leading, from ἂγειν, lead, conduct: see agent.
 

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