noun
Etymology
Origin of cascara sagrada
1880–85; < Spanish: literally, sacred bark
Example Sentences
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Unobjectionable are mineral oil, milk of magnesia, cascara sagrada.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bowels should be moved by vegetable laxatives, as aloin, cascara sagrada, or some simple combination of either or both of these drugs.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)
When necessary to resort to drugs—such remedies as cascara sagrada, milk of magnesia, or syrup of rhubarb, are satisfactory, as well as our old stand-by—castor oil.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
Laxatives—the various salines, aperient spring waters, castor oil, cascara sagrada, aloes and other vegetable cathartics.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Of the laxative drugs which may be used at such a time, cascara sagrada and senna are among the least harmful.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
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