cascara
- n dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
- Most of the laxatives people buy and take are intestine-irritating chemicals which many doctors denounce: cascara, aloes, resins, castor oil, phenolphthalein and salts.
- Piker Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well.
- Unobjectionable are mineral oil, milk of magnesia, cascara sagrada.