Sidenote: Constipation must be overcome in cases of emaciation] It must be remembered that milk has a constipating tendency when taken in ordinary quantities--from one to two glasses at a meal.
Sidenote: Milk may be laxative or constipating] Whether or not milk is constipating depends entirely upon how it is taken, and the articles with which it is combined.
The buttermilk and the clabbered milk are not constipating to the same degree.
Besides, they stop looseness and immoderate sweating by wine; and this shows that they think it more binding and constipating than snow itself.
In my opinion it is cold that causes this hardness in corn and pulse, by contracting and constipatingtheir parts till the substance becomes close and extremely rigid; while heat is a dissolving and softening quality.
And cold constipating the parts seems to preserve everything in its natural state, and water especially.
Unlike cocoa, it is not clogging or constipating or heavy.
White flour is a clogging constipatingfood that paves the way to appendicitis, etc.
Even the seasoned woodsman should not trifle with anything of so serious a nature, for even to him chronic constipation may come as the result of a steady diet of white flour and other constipating foods.
If there is game to be had it should, of course, be secured, for fresh meat is a great relief from the everlasting bacon and bannock and it tends to neutralize the constipating properties of such food.
Take daily exercise, as much as possible short of fatigue; if necessarily confined indoors, counteract the constipating influence of sedentary habits by kneading and percussing the bowels with the hands several minutes each day; 5.
An exclusive and full diet of milk, is rarely constipating except during the first few days of the diet, but when milk is added to the ordinary foods, it frequently has a tendency in this direction.
Cheese is very constipating to those inclined in this direction.
Buttermilk or fermented milk can often be used to advantage if sweet milk should prove constipating to the patient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constipating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
