It can be a laxative. But catahrsis has other meanings and uses as well. To rid yourself of grief is cathartic. Mainly, it just means to get something out of your sytem that is making you feel unwell .
"We need to put cathartic in this medicine."
A phisic is a typographic error. A physic is a medicine that is cathartic or purges. It is not a branch of mathematics..
Mary found the psychologist's style of therapy to be very cathartic. Cathartic can be used an as adjective or a noun.A sentence with the word cathartic that uses context clues is, crying at the sight of her lost dog returning to her yard gave cathartic release to her emotions.
"She didn't think of gardening as a chore, really, in fact it was quite cathartic; it was one of the few activitities that could take away the stresses of those long days at the office."
It's an adjective, used to describe a noun or a gerund. Examples: Richard found the effort very cathartic. (noun is 'effort') Talking to someone about a problem can be cathartic. (gerund is 'talking') Jane found using a punchbag highly cathartic. (gerund is 'using') Exercise is often cathartic. (noun is 'exercise'
A cathartic substance is one that accelerates defecation. Somebody would become cathartic by the ingestion of magnesium sulfate or sodium sulfate. In psychiatry cathartic means to recall traumatic events, usually under hypnosis. In this case a person would become cathartic by being hypnotized and then recalling traumatic events, lessening their impact on the unconscious.
Many find the high-energy aggression levels in Karate truly cathartic.
The song writing as well as writing poetry and free prose was incredibly cathartic.
Purgative can be used as an adjective meaning to cleanse. It can also be used as a noun for a medicine that is used as a cathartic. Both uses of the word are strongly associated with a laxative effect.
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Depending on context you could substitute cathartic with bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy.