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Answer for the clue "Emetic drug ", 6 letters:
ipecac

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n. 1 The plant ipecacuanha (''Psychotria ipecacuanha'') or its root. 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup%20of%20ipecac, produced from this plant's root, used to induce emesis (vomiting).

Usage examples of ipecac.

I was immediately put on sulfadiazine for the shigella and emetine, an alkaloid of ipecac used to destroy the parasitic amoeba.

Emetin, the active principle of ipecac, which has been successfully used in amebic dysentery, is now employed in the treatment of this trouble.

Williard was always afraid that one day he would confuse bottles and mix in ipecac or eugenol by mistake, but so far, he never had.

The after quarters contained one latrine, unbearably foul, and if each missionary occupied it for only fifteen minutes at a time, which was not excessive in their condition, five and a half hours were automatically consumed, and the day was half spent with no time allocated for emergency cases on the part of those who in extreme desperation had taken a master dose or ipecac, rhubarb, calomel and castor oil, all together.

Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.

So the dreadfully constipated missionaries took ipecac and rhubarb and calomel and castor oil.

Just to feed him a mixture of water, iodine, pepper oil, ipecac root, and some slightly raunchy mayonnaise we had pilfered from yesterday's breakfast and let sit out in the sun?

Then, when the motorcade arrived, they drank Syrup of Ipecac and puked big Red, White, and Blue barf puddles all over the hotel.

For example, Syrup of ipecac is used when someone has eaten poison.

Probably they had given her syrup of ipecac, which makes you keep throwing up until you can feel the sides of your stomach banging together.