CHEBI:50503 - laxative

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ChEBI Name laxative
ChEBI ID CHEBI:50503
Definition An agent that produces a soft formed stool, and relaxes and loosens the bowels, typically used over a protracted period, to relieve constipation. Compare with cathartic, which is a substance that accelerates defecation. A substances can be both a laxative and a cathartic.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing laxative (CHEBI:50503) is a drug (CHEBI:23888)
Incoming D-glucitol (CHEBI:17924) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
aloin (CHEBI:73222) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
aloin A (CHEBI:2991) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
aloin B (CHEBI:74131) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
carboxymethylcellulose (CHEBI:85146) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
castor oil (CHEBI:140618) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
emodin (CHEBI:42223) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
emodin(1−) (CHEBI:77659) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
lactitol (CHEBI:75323) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
lactulose (CHEBI:6359) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
magnesium citrate (CHEBI:131389) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
magnesium sulfate heptahydrate (CHEBI:31795) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
maltitol (CHEBI:68428) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
pentaerythritol (CHEBI:134760) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
potassium bitartrate (CHEBI:32034) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
potassium sodium L-tartrate (CHEBI:63019) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
sennoside (CHEBI:34974) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
sennosides (CHEBI:84154) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
trimagnesium dicitrate (CHEBI:131391) has role laxative (CHEBI:50503)
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aperient ChEBI
aperients ChEBI
laxante ChEBI
laxatives ChEBI
purgative ChEBI
purgatives ChEBI
Last Modified
23 September 2020