Not Medical Advice: It's a small amout of medicine that purges or cleanses the bowels by frequent evacuations. It induce bowel movements or soften or loosen up the stool.
Purgative medicines are also called cathartics or laxatives. They are used to treat constipation or to empty the bowel of fécal matter before colonoscopy or surgery.
Most laxatives work by either stimulating the bowel (stimulants), softening the stool (stool softeners), increasing the stool bulk or encouraging the stool to draw in more water (bulking agents), lubricating the stool to allow and easier passage out of the colon (lubricants), or by promoting the influx of water into the bowel (hyperosmotics).
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