This section presents 9 medicinal recipes using purgative herbs such as aloes, senna leaf, hemp seed and dwarf cherry seed. These herbs have heat-clearing and cathartic properties, hence those with deficiency of the spleen and stomach, as well as the elderly, pregnant women and menstruating women should avoid these dishes.
purgative medicine diet
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