Crossword-Solution: LAXATIVE 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; Ð opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

She had taken a laxative, and when returning to bed from stool was surprised to find herself attached to the stool by a band.

There was a partial absence of the peritoneal sac, and the obstruction readily yielded to a clyster and laxative.

Speak big words, and stamp and stare, and he look in at Key-hold! why, the very thought of that would make me laugh out-right, and spoil all: nay, I’ll tell thee, George, when I apprehend a thing once, I am of such a laxative laughter, that if the Devil him-self stood by, I should laugh in his face.

Likewise, the flushing of the colon with water, the use of laxative herb teas and decoctions or forced sweating by means of Turkish or Russian baths, though not as dangerous as inorganic minerals and poisonous drugs, cannot be classed among the natural means of cure.