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n. - A medicine that causes or increases sweating adj. - Inducing perspiration.

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  • It is advised as a sudorific stimulant in low fevers, and to relieve spasms.
  • I can say from experience, that it is a powerful sudorific, and very efficacious in a cold.
  • An infusion of the leaves is stimulating, sudorific, tonic, and beneficial in colds and chills.
  • It is sudorific; diuretic, emmenagogue and cathartic.
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