WESTERN CLASSIFICATION of the MATERIA MEDICA
2G. CLEANSING
Abstersive, Mundificativa, Lavativa, Elimativus
These medicines cleanse the organs and tissues appropriated to them. They work in multiple ways, either by purging and opening, by resolving and thinning, by relieving inflammation, or by soothing and making slippery. Most of these medicines work in more than one of these methods to produce a cleansing effect.
