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A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.

Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.

ith digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

nia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.

nia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic. Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

he watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

e seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

ly ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.