रेच रेचन

रेचक

रेचक a. (चिका f.) [रेचयति रिच्- णिच् ण्वुल्]
1 Emptying, purging.
2 Purgative, aperient.
3 Emptying the lungs, emitting the breath.
−कः
1 Emission of breath, breathing out, exhalation, especially through one of the nostrils (opp. पूरक which means ‘inhaling breath’, and कुंभक ‘suspending breath’).
2 A syringe.
3 Nitre, salt-petre.
−कं A purgative, cathartic.

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