title: Purgation
text: # Purgation
  
  Purgation may refer to:
  
  * Inducing bowel movement with a laxative
  * The purification of the soul
     * In this life, see State (theology)
     * In Purgatory
  * Purgation (album), Trigger the Bloodshed album
  * In US patent law, purgation of misuse refers to discontinuance of a restrictive practice and dissipation of its adverse results – see B.B. Chemical Co. v. Ellis
  