Carminative

Origin

From Latin carminare ("to card, hence to cleanse"), from carmen ("a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter").

Full definition of carminative

Adjective

1. Relieving discomfort of gas in the digestive tract.

Noun

1. (medicine) A drug or substance that induces the removal of gas from the digestive tract.
• 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 9):But Master Nathaniel was indifferent to these manifestations of unpopularity. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.----