purging

Stedman's Medical Dictionary: A Practical Medical Dictionary · 1920 · p. 29

(pur'jing). Causing a free evacuation of the bowels, p. agar'ic, agaric us. p. buckthorn, rhamnus cathartic a. p. ca ia, ca ia fistula, p. nut, curcas purgans. p. root, the root of Euphorbia* corollata, a tree of eastern North America.