Isolated and purified, iridoids exhibit a wide range of bioactivities including cardiovascular, antihepatotoxic, choleretic, hypoglycemic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic, antispasmodic, antitumor, antiviral, immunomodulator, and purgative activities.
en.wikipedia.org Amongst working class women violent purgatives were popular, pennyroyal, aloes and turpentine were all used.
en.wikipedia.org Some tribes practice ritual vomiting after its consumption, possibly to heighten its purgative and purifying powers, by expelling contamination from the body.
en.wikipedia.org These are possibly connected with the sweating of fevers, which was considered a purgative, washing, and purificational process.
en.wikipedia.org She believed that punishment after death was purgative, not punitive.
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