noun
a medicine containing opium, benzoic acid, camphor, and anise oil, used to treat diarrhea
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The doctor prescribed a dose of paregoric to alleviate the patient's severe cough.
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I heard that paregoric can help with a bad cough.
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My grandma swears by paregoric for any kind of ache or pain.
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His soothing words acted like a paregoric on her troubled mind.