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What does purgation mean?

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Noun
  1. The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
  2. The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
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In order to understand the use of purges in TCM it is important to understand the concepts and principles of purgation as applied in herbal practice.
This is the traditional, threefold mystical way of purgation, illumination and union.
To visit his office was to experience something of the intellectual calm of a tutorial or the moral purgation of a confessional.
What was the evidence, he asked, that purgation did anyone any good?
Clinical research on purgation in the treatment of the condition lends some support to this hypothesis.
Herbs with this flavor are generally used for clearing heat, inflammation, infections, toxicity, purgation, discharge dampness, cough vomiting.

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