Relating to or causing anacatharsis; promoting evacuation through vomiting.
From 'anacatharsis' + '-ic' (relating to). Describes medicines or treatments that induce upward purging.
In medieval medicine, doctors actually had specific categories of purgatives—some made you vomit upward (anacathartic), others worked downward (cathartic)—which shows they noticed the direction mattered, even if the science was wrong.
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