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- noun Plural form of
emmenagogue .
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Examples
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Sensitivity depends on the individual but herbs that are strong blood movers, including those classified as emmenagogues and many that are warming stimulants and carminatives, should be limited or avoided.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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I didn't know it was the ginger until about two weeks after I read a healing herbs book and saw that ginger is what they call a "emmenagogues" in that it encourages menstruation.
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Women had their emmenagogues and men stayed out of it.
Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism." Ann Althouse 2008
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These include herbal stimulants, warming tonics, carminatives that aid digestion and emmenagogues that stimulate menses and blood circulation.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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The theory of Loewenthal leads him to conclude that menstruation is not physiological, but pathological, and not necessary to health; that menstrual blood is normal blood, and does not contain any poisonous substance that must be eliminated from the system; that in amenorrhoea, emmenagogues are useless or harmful, as some constitutional disease (chlorosis, hysteria, etc.) causes amenorrhoea; but the latter causes no disease itself.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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The most difficult cases which we have had to deal with, have been those which had been subjected by other physicians to the administration of strong emmenagogues in the vain effort to bring on the menses.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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