瀉しゃ下げ

noun, noun-modifying (irregular), noun or participle which takes 'suru'

purging the bowels; catharsis; diarrhea

Medical term for inducing bowel evacuation or describing severe diarrhea. Often used in clinical or pharmacological contexts.

• この薬くすりは瀉しゃ下げ作さ用ようがある。

  This medicine has a purgative effect.

• 瀉しゃ下げ薬やくを服ふく用ようすると、腸ちょう内ないが空からになる。

  Taking a cathartic empties the bowels.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

pouring out

Only with reading しゃか

Original, now rare meaning referring to the act of pouring out water or other substances. Restricted to the reading しゃか.

• 古こ典てんでは「瀉しゃ下か」を水みずを注そそぎ出だす意い味みで用もちいることがある。

  In classical texts, 瀉下 is sometimes used to mean pouring out water.