- cathartic, psychotherapeutic - emotionally purging
Antonym: unhealthful (indirect, via healthful)
- cathartic, releasing - emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
Antonym: unemotional (indirect, via emotional)
- cathartic, evacuant, purgative - strongly laxative
Antonym: costive (indirect, via laxative)
- purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient - a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
--1 is a kind of medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
--1 has particulars:aloes, bitter aloes; castor oil; Epsom salts; laxative; milk of magnesia, magnesium hydroxide; Seidlitz powder, Seidlitz powders, Rochelle powder