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Hiera Picra or 'Holy Bitter' is a warm cathartic composed of aloes and canella bark made into a powder and mixed with honey. It was a favourite in domestic medicine and veterinary practice during the Victorian period and beyond.
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Butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is the pleurisy-root of America, where it has a considerable reputation as an article of the materia medica. It is an expectorant, a mild cathartic, and a diaphoretic, and is employed in incipient pulmonary affections, rheumatism, and dysentery.
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Azedarach is the astringent bark of the chinaberry tree. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and cathartic.
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Cascara is an extract of the bark of the Californian buckthorn used as a laxative or cathartic.
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A cathartic is a medicine which is capable of producing the second grade of purgation, of which a laxative is the first.
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Colchicin is an alkaloid obtained from colchicum, used for the alleviation or cure of gout and rheumatism. It acts as an emetic, diuretic, and cathartic, in large doses as a narcotico-acrid poison.
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Croton Oil is a fatty oil obtained from the seeds of Croton tiglium. It is an extremely powerful cathartic and is used in medicine.
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Cream Of Tartar (Potassiun Bitartrate) exists in grapes, tamarinds, and other fruits. It is traditionally prepared from the crystalline crust (crude tartar or argol) deposited on the vessels in wliich grape juice has been fermented. The argol is dissolved by boiling with water, the mixture filtered, and the cream of tartar allowed to crystallize out. The commercial product usually contains a small percentage of calcium tartrate. It is frequently employed in medicine for its diuretic, cathartic, and refrigerant properties; as a mordant in dyeing wool; and as an ingredient in baking-powder.
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Epsom Salts is the popular name for hydrated magnesium sulphate (Epsomite), MgSO4.7H2O, the name coming from the mineral's occurrence in mineral springs in Epsom, Surrey. It is used medicinally as a cathartic, and is also used for weighting textiles.
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