Cholagogue Purgatives: when debility is due to defective elimination of waste.
The action of cholagogue purgatives is more decidedly beneficial in the attacks due to the passage of inspissated bile.
Experience has proved that active or drastic cathartics do harm rather than good; on the other hand, mild laxatives, especially those having cholagogue action, seem to do good.
If evidences of portal congestion are present, such remedies as euonymin, iridin, baptisin, and others of the cholagogue group give good results.
Recent experiments have proved the accuracy of the clinical observations which recognized the cholagogue property of ipecac, and hence the emetic effect of this remedy is aided by its power to promote the discharge of bile.
The most effective of the remedies of this kind is ipecacuanha, given in purgative doses: the emesis induced by it favors the extrusion of the stone, and the powerful cholagogue effect relieves the portal congestion.
As has been explained when referring to its use in cases of disorders due to inspissated bile, it has a distinct cholagogue action, but the chief sources of its utility in this affection are its chemical and resolvent powers.
He did not suspect that the quinine went into the fire, and the cholagogue down the drain-pipe from the washstand.
He used instead small doses of tartar emetic, or more recently, of ipecacuanha frequently repeated, with low diet; or cholagogue purgatives combined with ipecacuanha, etc.
He lived in Richmond, and, to keep him free from fever-and-ague, my brother dosed him freely with cholagogue whenever he came down into the malarial country.
Cholagogue was a fever-and-argue remedy of which I partook largely at that time.
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