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Meanings of laxative in anglès
Antonyms
Examples for "costive"
Examples for "costive"
1
This is an excellent nursery remedy when the bowels are obstinately costive.
2
You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, without being costive.
3
Figs cooked in milk make an excellent drink for costive persons.
4
She should eat food that would cause costive bowels in her.
5
He took no other medicine, except a little rhubarb when costive.
Usage of laxative in anglès
1
If you have digestive issues, flaxseed is also a great, natural laxative.
2
They are laxative and exert a sedative influence over the nervous system.
3
The ordinary cathartic or laxative acts by reason of its irritating qualities.
4
Spanish onion boiled and eaten freely at bed-time is an excellent laxative.
5
They are anti-putrescent, and exert a laxative action corrective of bilious sluggishness.
6
Olive oil is slightly laxative, and therefore useful to sufferers from constipation.
7
Let's just put something in his drink, like a laxative or something.
8
Cascara sagrada cordial is a good mild laxative to take, if necessary.
9
The type of laxative used also did not significantly differ between the groups.
10
Patients with BN tend to endorse high rates of laxative use.
11
Native Americans used it as a natural laxative for treating constipation.
12
In Central and South America, Aloe Vera is taken as a mild laxative.
13
I got eight thousand cases against Schmeltzer for their laxative pills.
14
I enquired whether it was a laxative, but was answered in the negative.
15
The Compound Licorice Powder is a mild, simple laxative and effective.
16
Action: It is slightly laxative and a pleasant article of food.
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Laxative through the time
Laxative across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common