It gets all the nasty gutbugs which are infecting you
out of your guts without absorbing them through the intestinal wall.
( Comma, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 21:23, archived)

But it then carries on
for ages and ages, long after the nastiness has gone. That's why they say you should use a cork anti-poo pills.
( Druid, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 21:29, archived)