You have to decoct the herbs to create a medicinal tea. From LearnThat.org.
Pao-yü, on one hand, hastened to direct a servant to go and decoct them, and, on the other, he heaved a sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
To take a cathart. powder every 4th morning, continuing the decoct. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference
I may decoct an essence in yonder furnace that will transmute the basest metal into gold. From Wordnik.com. [From Jest to Earnest] Reference
Take flower-de-luces, stalk, blossom, root, together; then decoct them over a slack fire; and with the liquid bathe your eyes several times a day; you will most certainly be cured of that weakness; but see that you purge first, and then go forward with the lotion. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Dolliver Romance] Reference
Gosling, “to decoct, an that be the word, his pound into a penny and his webs into a thread. —. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
"Can you decoct, infuse, and blend?". From Wordnik.com. [Nerilka's Story]
The wet nurse wants rock candy to decoct papayas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference
"Thou hast taught him a secret, kinsman," said Giles Gosling, "to decoct, an that be the word, his pound into a penny and his webs into a thread. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
It is singular, with such preciseness, that no distinct directions are given whether to infuse, decoct, distil, or what other way; but my advice is to distil. ". From Wordnik.com. [Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life] Reference
It is singular, with such preciseness, that no distinct directions are given whether to infuse, decoct, distil, or what other way; but my advice is to distil.”. From Wordnik.com. [Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life] Reference
Omittant.pil. cap.mistur. c. decoct. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference
To boil; to decoct in hot liquor. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
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