Adjective modifier

• drastic: The oil contained in the seeds is a drastic purgative.

• strong: The use of the bark as a strong purgative dates back to Hippocrates, but is rarely used nowadays.

• powerful: This would include potions and lotions of lead and mercury, or powerful purgatives to make you vomit or give you diarrhea.

• saline: Beforehand, you have to drink a saline purgative.

• mild: These too are a mild purgative, but they dont drop as readily as honeysuckle berries.

Modifies a noun

• property: The idea was to showcase the purgative properties of the vegetable.

• action: All these substances play a role in the purgative action of the bark.

• effect: But at the very least it will have had a purgative effect and got rid of his rage and grief.

• quality: Initially it was used externally to cure sores, and later drunk for its purgative qualities.

• medicine: BOX: Up to 1867 syrup of Buckthorn was still an official purgative medicine in the British Pharmacopeia.

Modifying Another Word

• strongly: The root is strongly purgative ( Lewis & Elvin-Lewis 1977 ).