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Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Euonymus :: Euonymus (n.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

Bryonin :: Bryonin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic..

Gamboge :: Gamboge (n.) A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic..

Elaterium :: Elaterium (n.) A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium)..

Gymnocladus :: Gymnocladus (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee..

Purgative :: Purgative (n.) A purging medicine; a cathartic.

Evacuant :: Evacuant (a.) Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

Salt :: Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt..

Podophyllum :: Podophyllum (n.) The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug..

Azedarach :: Azedarach (n.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic..

Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

Drastic :: Drastic (n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

Cata :: Cata () The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic..

Physic :: Physic (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge..

Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..

Rhamnus :: Rhamnus (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

Picra :: Picra (n.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic..

Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..

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