laxative

A food or drug that stimulates evacuation of the bowels.

Stimulating evacuation of the bowels.

Causing looseness or relaxation, especially of the bowels.

Loose; soft; easy.

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

A medicine that relieves from costiveness by relaxing the intestines; a gentle purgative.

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.

Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.