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Purgative Therapy
Purgative therapy is a treatment for relieving constipation, eliminating toxins, undigested food, excessive heat and pathogenic fluid by the application of purgatives or lubricants, both orally and by colonics. The purgatives are often herbs and sometimes special salts.

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