# Cholagogue

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{{Short description|Laxative}}
A '''cholagogue''' is a substance that is purported by [humoral practitioners](/source/Humorism) to encourage the discharge of [bile](/source/bile) from the system, [purging](/source/purgative) it downward. Deployment is no longer recommended because the biliary purge, like the traditional kidney purge, can cause pancreatic problems.

In Patrick O'Brian's ''[Post Captain](/source/Post_Captain_(novel))'' (Ch. 10), which is set in the Napoleonic era, [Stephen Maturin](/source/Stephen_Maturin), one of the book's main characters (who is also a physician, naturalist and spy) sits in the snug of the Rose and Crown in [Deal, Kent](/source/Deal%2C_Kent), and drinks a "good" tea described as an "unrivalled cholagogue".

[Cyclovalone](/source/Cyclovalone) is a choleretic and cholagogic agent.<ref name=Elks>{{Cite book | title = Dictionary of Drugs | author = J. Elks, C. Robin Ganellin |page=162}}</ref>

==References==
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* Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). ''[Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences](/source/Cyclopaedia%2C_or_an_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences)'' (first ed.), ''s.v.'' "Cholagogue".
*''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'', 1913 Edition.
*''Patrick O'Brian Post Captain'', 2002 paperback edition, page 315.

==External links==
* {{MeshName|Cholagogues+and+Choleretics}}

Category:Laxatives

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