Worst-tasting Oral laxative

Looking for the worst tasting laxative that u can buy OTC any ideas thanks

Castor oil, with its taste and horrible texture is the worst.

Most of the others are just salty.

I agree. When my Mom gave me Castor Oil when I was a kid, I would gag at its horrible taste and the thick oily texture in my mouth if she made me take it straight from a spoon. She sometimes stirred it into a glass of orange juice to try and disguise the taste but it formed oily globules in the juice and I could still taste it. Now I hate orange juice because whenever I drink it, my mind supplies the Castor Oil taste that I remember from childhood.

It is only a shame you could not hook up with my mother when my sister and I were growing up. There you would have been introduced to castor oil to which she was not bashful about using for herself but also imposing upon her two daughters. We all had our spring and fall cleanouts with the wicked stuff but if you dared to lie or sass mom, the offending person (usually me) got the joys and delight of partaking another healthy dose.

Tillie

I'm really into all of this stuff mostly for fun, but when an actual punishment is in order, nothing beats good old castor oil. Tablespoonful after tablespoonful with not a drop left on the spoon, followed by the hairbrush. Does a person good and is not soon forgotten.

Swallowing a good dose Castor Oil ought not to be nasty: Early in the morning, not having breakfasted, take 1 oz Castor Oil in your mouth and mix this there with your saliva for 15 minutes before swallowing this dose: You will be astonished that the terrible taste of Castor Oil will vanish. Repeat this procedure and you will have taken the recommended dose of 2 oz Castor Oil for adults.

The worst tasting is of course Castor Oil as everyone has noted so far. The viscosity and taste of it combined makes it the worst.

However it was the mag-citrate (i think that's what it was - comes in the bottle like ginger ale with different flavors) that decided to come right back up the second it hit my tummy without any warning! After reading the lable I found that it had artificial sweetners - something I cannot eat. That was one of the worst ones for me.

The worst tasting is of course Castor Oil as everyone has noted so far. The viscosity and taste of it combined makes it the worst.

However it was the mag-citrate (i think that's what it was - comes in the bottle like ginger ale with different flavors) that decided to come right back up the second it hit my tummy without any warning! After reading the lable I found that it had artificial sweetners - something I cannot eat. That was one of the worst ones for me.

Also, the salts in mag citrate can dehydrate you and damage your kidneys.

Jds4med

This is the advantage of Castor Oil that it will be never possible to damage the kidneys in swallowing this stuff.

My Primary Dr. recommended, stool softner, along with my oral laxatives, but if this doesn't work, then either oil or water enemas, or magnesium citrate and to drink the entire bottle and wait for developments, I took that as to stay in your nightshirt

I'm not sure that castor oil is as safe as people think it is. After all, ricin poison is made from the castor oil bean.

Dr Higginson

You are wrong, for Castor Oil will be at first pressed cold from the castor oil beans. Afterwards the pressed fluid will be treated with steam; so the toxic Ricin will be eliminated totally. By the help of this treatment Castor Oil will be free from all toxins.

If you want REALLY bad tasting laxatives, try the prescription bowel prep solutions like GoLytely. It's like drinking a gallon of cold, salty, sulfuric snot.

Castor oil sounds horrid, but I've never taken it. From my own experience, milk of magnesia is a potent gag inducer. I shudder just thinking about it. Blech!

In Deep you will never forget taking Castor Oil. The flavor is bland but the stuff is very thick. The flavor will return with each burp for several hours and you will get sick of it.

Stephen

You are wrong: In the case that you will mix Castor Oil with your saliva intensively you will not have any problems in swallowing this stuff.

I couldn;t imagine a worse laxative than a dose of 2 ounces of straight castor oil given slowly, one tablespoon at a time. It's terrible taste and heavy consistancy herald the beginning of difficult "things to come".as it slowly works it's way through your system. Having been the recipient of numerous doses of castor oil from growing up in a very bowel conscious family I'm kind of a veteran of this treatment as it was combined with SSEs, suppositories and soap sticks to "promote" good bowel health. Ricini, I wish you'd explain your reasoning behind your theory of mixing it with your saliva before swallowing to limit the normal effects of it on your system.

Bends

It is not my theory in mixing Castor Oil with the saliva before swallowing this in order to limit the normal effects of it on my system, but my practice I have discovered by hazard about twenty years ago. In mixing 1 oz Castor Oil for 15 minutes with the saliva before swallowing this on the one hand the terrible taste of Castor Oil will disappear, on the other hand Castor Oil will no more glue to the throat. In repeating this, you will have swallowed the normal dose of 2 oz Castor Oil for adults, this in a very comfortable manner.

I don't mind the taste of castor oil. I don't want to use it as a seasoning, but it's not awful.

I still maintain that the taste of bowel prep solutions with electrolytes is the worst. Sulfur and salt with the consistency of refrigerated snot.

I've always wondered about those little bottles of mag citrate. They claim to be lemon/lime flavored. Does anyone know how they actually taste?

In Deep, they taste like very salty soda loaded with artificial lemon/lime flavor. Go for the cherry flavor, it seems to cover up the salt flavor better.

Castor oil taste is bad but part of the taste effect is swallowing the thick viscous oil. I have found the taste of Milk of Magnesia to be far worse than castor oil.

In Deep:

I've always wondered about those little bottles of mag citrate. They claim to be lemon/lime flavored. Does anyone know how they actually taste?

M C does a fairly good job of cleaning you out and relatively quickly. Now regarding the taste - well it is sort of like lemon/lime soda and not carbonated. It is semi-sweet with an alkazelter saltiness and is best taken when chilled a bit in a refrigerator. Normally after drinking the bottle one has about an hour or so before an entrance to the throne room is required for the first sitting session. Subsequent sessions will be less and less emptying. M C is for most folks terribly de-hydrating on the system - plan on drinking lots of water to restore the fluid balance which will in turn cause a return for minor throne room events for a few hours. M C and ducolax are the main primers for a colonoscopy followed with another ugly fluid 'GoLitely (sp)' to do a final roto-rooter clean out. Another way to look at M C is it is the drano tolerated by the human stomach and intestinal system.

But most definitely much better tasting than castor oil and as usual YMMV !

Sal Hepatica hands down. There was another brown tincture that contained Oil of Seneca which was worse except it did not "fizzle" and I can't recall the product name. Sal Hepatica was manufactured by Bristol Myers-discontinued in 1958. It was a powder one mixed with water, which then bubbled like Alka-Seltzer The taste was bitter and chemical and I sure it came right back up in a lot of cases. I honestly can't describe how nasty this stuff was. The other Oil of Seneca compound had the most bitter taste of anything I have ever tasted, it looked like cocktail bitters and the taste would stay in one's mouth for an hour.

I would have gladly accepted caster oil over either one of these 19th Century style products.

Ricini;

Thanks for clarifying your recommended procedure for taking Castor Oil. I see your point about mixing it with saliva to make it easier to swallow. Also, do you advocate combining this with enemas?

Olddog;

I have very vague memories of being given Sal Hepatica and don't remember much about it. From your description it definitely sounds difficult to take. Were enemas combined with this also?

Castor oil has ZERO activity with an enema other than to lubricate like any other oil.

Castor oil MUST be swallowed to give its laxative effect because it must be metabolized to ricinoleic acid to cause evacuation.

GoLtyley doesn't taste bad, especially if you add the flavor pack. However, my experience is that I become nauseated after a few ounces and can not drink the whole dose of 8 ounces. I have to wait a while longer.

Thehttp://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=addpost;topic=78689 first time I had a barium enema, I had no idea what mag citrate did. I had a meeting scheduled at 7:30 in the evening. After clear liquids all day I drank this 7-up bottle of salty solution. I had no problem with the taste. Half an hour or so later I ran for the toilet!! Fortunately I was home and not in the car one the way to the meeting!

Bratwurst:

GoLtyley doesn't taste bad, especially if you add the flavor pack. However, my experience is that I become nauseated after a few ounces and can not drink the whole dose of 8 ounces. I have to wait a while longer.

Thehttp://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=addpost;topic=78689 first time I had a barium enema, I had no idea what mag citrate did. I had a meeting scheduled at 7:30 in the evening. After clear liquids all day I drank this 7-up bottle of salty solution. I had no problem with the taste. Half an hour or so later I ran for the toilet!! Fortunately I was home and not in the car one the way to the meeting!

Yup YMMV you exceeded the average expectations of about an hour in half that time. And YES glad the throne room was available on short notice ! RE: the GoLtyley stuff the original prescription called for somewhere around 64 ounces. I was very lucky to get anywhere near half that finally going both ends at the same time - good thing the bathtub was conveniently close for fast clean up of the mess. Ideally if you succeeded in getting all 64 ounces down you were supposed to be 'whistling dixie' clean. Now if you have had a rapid purging of the fluid thru the system the colonoscopy should be good one even though you may not have gotten all of it in play. The more forceful the evacuation the better.

This causes the dangling particles to be flushed out. The prep time is the major down side to the procedure. The actual procedure takes only minutes.

Bends

Indeed it is absolutely necesserary to take a high enema the next day after a Castor-Oil-day, this in order to wash out the remaining poisons and toxins in the colon. For in swallowing Castor Oil a lot of poisons are deliberated in the liver, but not all will be excreted this day, so a high enema will be very helpful in order to prevent a reintoxication.

In an earlier post in this string I made the connection between castor oil and enemas. I'm very aware that this oral laxative must be swallowed for it to function properly. I made this connection for the folowing reasons. In my younger days I lived through the "Golden Age of Enemas". I believe that period was also the "Golden Age of Laxatives" as I've heard of a number of personal experiences from that time, the 50s, 60s and early 70s, where a laxative was given for any hint of "irregularity". This practice was carried a step further in my family as a dose of castor oil was always followed the next day by a series of SSEs or a combination of a glycerine suppository or ivory soap stick followed by an SSE to insure getting back on "the right track". Also, back in those days if a barium enema was needed the standard hospital prep was a dose of castor oil followed later in the day by SSEs "until clear".