:I think it's probably supposed to be " cholagogue : a medicine that carries off bile " ( OED ) .-- feed me 08 : 59, 30 December 2007 ( UTC)
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Homoeopathy still made use of the leaves against rheumatism, HIV and fever In Turkey this tea ( one glass a day ) is still consumed for antihelminthic, diaphoretic, and cholagogue purposes and is called Abi ^ im _ ir .
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*Globe artichoke leaves also appear to have such effects, described as choleretic ( some sites use this interchangeably with a cholagogue, but apparently many sources describe an increase in production of bile as choleretic, whereas a cholagogue might merely encourage its release from the liver or gall bladder.
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*Globe artichoke leaves also appear to have such effects, described as choleretic ( some sites use this interchangeably with a cholagogue, but apparently many sources describe an increase in production of bile as choleretic, whereas a cholagogue might merely encourage its release from the liver or gall bladder.
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In Patrick O'Brian's " Post Captain " ( Ch . 10 ), which is set in the Napoleonic era, 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, and drinks a " good " tea described as an " unrivalled cholagogue ".
