Certain nerves act as aperients. From LearnThat.org.
Boerhaave thought the root "a principal aperient.". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The water here is bad, and of a strong aperient quality. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Arabia] Reference
Brown bread and oatmeal porridge have also an aperient effect. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
This will, in the majority of cases, enable her to do without an aperient. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Officinally apothecaries mix the pulp with senna as an aperient confection. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The secret, though, is, I fancy, in the olive oil, which is an excellent aperient. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
I prescribed a pill with the hydrarg. submurias, to be followed by an aperient draught. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
The juice is slightly aperient, and abundantly lacteal when mixed with goat's milk, or in gruel. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The Ageyl said that the best aperient was to drink camel-milk from cups of the scooped-out rind. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The bark is mildly aperient and causes no nausea, whilst at the same time stimulating the liver somewhat freely. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It was thermal, saline, pleasant to the taste, and some, who partook of it, attributed to it an aperient quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829] Reference
When eaten raw, dried Figs prove somewhat aperient, and they are apt to make the mouth sore whilst masticating them. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Most writers who comment on this seem to suggest that any fruit which is mildly aperient would produce the same effect. From Wordnik.com. [Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses] Reference
Gerard said: "Being in some degree laxative and aperient, the cultivated Lettuce is very proper for hot bilious dispositions;" and. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The inspissated juice or "rob" extracted from the crushed berries, and simmered with white sugar, is cordial, aperient, and diuretic. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The juice of its berries is aperient, without being irritating, and is well suited as a laxative for persons of delicate constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Thus this can be aperient, laxative, purgative or cathartic. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Seidlitz Powder forms another safe and mild aperient, or one or two. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
Dispensatory: Described as a cathartic with roots tonic and aperient. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
If you are wise, you will defer as long as you can giving an aperient. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
If there be a good deal of irritation, a mild aperient should be given. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
While the eruption is out, do not on any account give aperient medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
In ten days from the commencement of the illness a mild aperient may be given. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
They know how to let blood, and to compound different sorts of aperient medicines. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference
If from the first you refrain from giving an aperient, he seldom requires one afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
Stewed prunes may be given in treacle -- treacle increasing the aperient properties of the prunes. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
It is a complaint of no danger, and readily gives way to a mild aperient, and to attention to diet. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
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