Can you get diarrhea from drinking purgatives?

If patients with cold spleen and stomach take the drug of purging heat and removing toxins, there is a certain chance of diarrhea and other adverse symptoms.
Clearing heat and removing toxins is one of the methods of clearing heat, which is clinically applicable to the treatment of plague, warm toxins and all kinds of heat and toxin diseases, in which patients commonly suffer from high fever, irritability, dry mouth and throat, constipation, yellow urine, epistaxis (vomiting of blood, nosebleed), hair spots (red, swollen and bruised spots or patches under the skin), localized redness, swelling and heat pain of the skin, and red tongue with yellow fur.
Heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines such as Huang Lian, Huang Baicalin, Huang Bai, Gypsum, Forsythia, etc. have the efficacy of clearing heat, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, and are commonly used in the treatment of various kinds of heat syndromes in clinic, with bitter and cold tastes, and may cause adverse symptoms such as diarrhea if taken by patients with weak and cold spleens and stomachs.
It is recommended that patients in need of medication under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis, do not self-medication, so as not to affect the health.