The decoction is the form prescribed in pneumonia. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
A decoction is a liquid produced by boiling a substance until its soluble properties are extracted. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
Turkish physicians in the form of a decoction, which is regarded by them as of peculiar efficacy in diseases of the respiratory organs. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Boil them, till they be all Mash, and that the water hath drawn the Mucilage out of them, and that the decoction will be a gelly, when it is cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Let it dry, crush about this much in the palm of your hand, boil it in enough water to fill the bone cup until the decoction is the color of ripe hay. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
The decoction is the most useful form; one ounce of the bruised root is boiled in a pint of water, of which a half pint to one pint may be taken during the day. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
I have cooked them, and by his direction each of you is invited to immerse his hands in the decoction which is now cool. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IX] Reference
Mordant with alum and dye in a decoction of oak bark. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
Make strong decoction of soap bark, and put into alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Then his wife, Aunt Jessica, blew in with a decoction she called catnip tea. From Wordnik.com. [You Should Worry Says John Henry] Reference
Probably the most popular way it is employed, however, is as a decoction in vinegar. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Beulah drank the hot decoction gratefully and found, to her surprise, that it was deliciously made. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
They should occasionally take half a pint of the decoction of lignum-vitæ, boiling an ounce of it in. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
He did not summon him, however, but hurriedly poured his decoction into a cup and carried it to the bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
He provided his army surgeons with small vials containing a decoction of wormwood, camomile, and camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Have a thin solution of glue or decoction of linseed oil ready, into which pour the soda until quite thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Have a thin solution of Glue, or decoction of Linseed Oil ready, into which pour the Soda until quite thick. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Add 15 per cent. gelatine to the potato decoction and bubble live steam through the mixture for ten minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Add 10 per cent. gelatine to the potato decoction and bubble live steam through the mixture for ten minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Take of bicarbonate of potash 1/2 drachm, tincture of orange 2 drachms, compound decoction of aloes 8 oz., mix. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
In the latter case the tea has been allowed to soak so long that it has become a decoction instead of an infusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Sage is also used for flavoring cheese; and, in the form of a decoction, is sometimes employed for medical purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Wash the ankle very frequently with cold salt and water, which is far better than warm vinegar or decoction of herbs. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The head and beard are washed with a decoction made of some flowers, after which the greater lustration (ghusl) is made. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
They then purge the patient, and the next day, upon the approach of the fit, they give a third of the decoction to drink. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
The floors of the houses are invariably made of earth, beaten down hard, and smeared periodically with a decoction of cow-dung. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
It is made by adding to a solution of sulphate of copper a decoction of fustic, previously clarified by a solution of gelatine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
No other drink was allowed to the community but water, which was sometimes boiled with a small decoction of certain wild herbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Is a coarse kind of lake, produced by dyeing chalk or whitening with decoction of Brazil wood, peachwood, sapan, bar, camwood, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
A buffet at Oxford, and an instantaneous glimpse of people scalding their throats with an intolerable decoction called coffee extract. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Of these the "pine-needle" bath has the greatest repute; it is made by adding a decoction of the needles or young shoots of firs and pines. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Tea at sea is proverbially unpalatable, and invariably disagrees, owing chiefly to the fact that it is a boiled decoction of tea leaves and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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