Difference between Laxative and Purgative

LAXATIVE vs PURGATIVE: NOUN

Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.
A medicine that relieves from costiveness by relaxing the intestines; a gentle purgative.
A food or drug that stimulates evacuation of the bowels.
A mild cathartic

A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
A purgative agent or medicine; a cathartic.
A medicine that evacuates the intestines, producing more or less abundant and watery stools.
Something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative

Stimulating evacuation of the bowels.
Causing looseness or relaxation, especially of the bowels.
Having a tendency to loosen or relax.
Having the effect of loosening or opening the intestines, and relieving from constipation; -- opposed to astringent.
Having the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.
Stimulating evacuation of feces

Loose; soft; easy.
In medicine, having the power or quality of relieving from constipation by relaxing or opening the intestines. Compare cathartic, 1.

A purging medicine
Having the property, as judicial torture in some cases, of invalidating the evidence against an accused person, when he, under torture, satisfactorily answered the questions of the judges.
Having the power of cleansing; usually, having the power of evacuating the intestines; cathartic.

Herbal, Digestive, Emetic, Antidiarrheal, Sedative, Antispasmodic, Ipecac, Antacid, Diuretic, Chalastic, Evacuant, Aperient, Physic, Cathartic, Purgative

Ipecac, Antitussive, Anthelmintic, Antipyretic, Carminative, Antispasmodic, Emetic, Lapactic, Hydragogue, Alviducous, Evacuant, Aperient, Physic, Cathartic, Laxative

Herbal, Digestive, Emetic, Antidiarrheal, Sedative, Antispasmodic, Ipecac, Antacid, Diuretic, Chalastic, Evacuant, Aperient, Physic, Cathartic, Purgative

Ipecac, Antitussive, Anthelmintic, Antipyretic, Carminative, Antispasmodic, Emetic, Lapactic, Hydragogue, Alviducous, Evacuant, Aperient, Physic, Cathartic, Laxative

Does the Teami Colon create a laxative effect?
Another reason why laxative pills are not recommended?
Purging methods usually involve vomiting and laxative abuse.
In large doses it acts as a laxative.
India, including use of the root as a laxative and abortifacient, and use of the leaf as a laxative.
If this does not work, laxatives can be prescribed, usually an osmotic laxative followed if necessary by a stimulant laxative.
The Plexus Slim Bio Cleanse supplement lives up to its laxative name because it contains magnesium, which is indeed a laxative.
The starring function of senna laxative tea is, well, its laxative property.
Those who engage in extreme laxative use may become laxative dependent.
An osmotic laxative and stimulant laxative should therefore be considered.

The leaves are emmenagogue, purgative like those of senna, and excitant.
At both departments, a purgative solution for colon cleansing was used.
Practitioners of TCM consider it more purgative than the mature form.
The seed oil is cytotoxic, emetic, emollient, hypotensive and purgative.
Su016bkta medicinal effects: It is light, dry, purgative and hot.
Considered antiscorbutic, diuretic, expectorant, hypoglycemic, odontalgic, purgative, stimulant, stomachic.
Oral purgative and simethicone before small bowel capsule endoscopy.
It is like a purgative for the body politic.
It acts as purgative or laxative mainly unprocessed aloe.
The purgative effect test was performed in rats.