What decoctionshave not men swallowed from babyhood to old age to get relief from griping colic!
Joe-Pye, an Indian medicine-man of New England, earned fame and fortune by curing typhus fever and other horrors with decoctions made from this plant.
They still adhere to their sorcerers, who are called in upon all important occasions, to predict the future, exorcise evil spirits and the like, with the aid of various decoctions and incantations.
Bark, herbs, and various decoctions are used in slight sickness, but in serious cases little reliance is placed on them.
A few simple decoctions are made from herbs, but these are seldom very efficient medicines, especially when administered for the more complicated diseases which the whites have brought among them.
For these ailments they have different remedies, consisting of leaves, herbs, and roots, of which decoctions or poultices are made; scarification and the hunger cure are resorted to as well.
The author, moreover, commends external fomentations made by means of sponges soaked with emollient decoctions and afterward squeezed; and also the application of moderately hot cataplasms.
For the cleanliness of the mouth, for strengthening the teeth and gums, mouth washes of sundry kinds were likewise adopted, especially formed of decoctions of astringent substances in water, wine, and vinegar.
Decoctions are the form of medicament most in use among the Chinese.
There are about forty of these, and decoctions and powders predominate among them, the latter to be rubbed on the painful spot.
Various compound decoctions of sarsaparilla are known by this name.
Oak bark, spent tan, sawdust; and their decoctions are efficacious on account of the tannic acid they contain, but they attack the boiler plates at the same time.
Flasks containing decoctions of tea, beef, and hay were filled with common air, and other flasks with sifted air.
Into flasks containing decoctions of liquorice-root, hay, or tea, Dr.
Infusions and decoctions of these will often be advised on account of the fact that they are more available than the tinctures, fluid extracts, and concentrated principles, which we prefer, and almost invariably employ in our practice.
Kaempf made frequent and large injections of decoctions of various plants--saponaria, taraxacum, etc.
Schwann placed decoctionsof meat in flasks, sterilised the decoctions by boiling, and then supplied them with calcined air, the power of which to support life he showed to be unimpaired.
An objection to decoctions is that the flavor of vinegar is not always desired in a culinary preparation, and neither is that of alcohol or wine, which are sometimes used in the same way as vinegar.
In the kitchen, foliage herbs are employed either green or as decoctions or dried, each way with its special advocates, advantages and applications.
Brandy in which Camphire is infus'd, or Spirit of Wine, is likewise a most excellent Remedy; as also all Lotions or Washes made with the Waters or Decoctions of Anti-scorbutick Plants.
What are the Vulnerary Plants, the Decoctions of which is to be taken inwardly?
The Spots may be fomented with Decoctions of Aromatick and Anti-Scorbutick Herbs and Nitre.
The Clysters may be made withDecoctions of Mercury, Mallows, Beets, a Handful of Barley and Honey of Roses.
Decoctions are of most use in such diseases as lie in the passages of the body, as the stomach, bowels, kidneys, passages of urine and bladder, because decoctions pass quicker to those places than any other form of medicines.
Keep all decoctions in a glass close stopped, and in the cooler place you keep them, the longer they will last ere they be sour.
Poor old thing, she is half mad," thought Mace; and even then she began to think about the cup; coming rapidly to the right conclusion that Mother Goodhugh had placed some one or another of her decoctions in the water.
She was gentleness and innocence itself when he was present, but her eyes flashed when he left; and there was that in her looks which seemed to say that she would as readily poison him as give him cunning decoctions to win his love.
The news of my liberty, however, worked more wonders towards my cure than all the physic the first of doctors could have given me, or the decoctions of good Mammy Gobo.
These she applied at once to my feet, and, putting on her pots, formed some decoctions with the herbs, which she made me swallow in large quantities.
For love-potions, decoctions of rosemary were much employed.
Frequent allusions to this superstition are to be found in the old poets, although it is held by some that the effects claimed for decoctions of the mandrake really refer to those of the nightshade.
These have a nauseous bitter taste: decoctions of them loosen the belly, promote urine, and stand recommended in hydropic cases.
The leaves of the docks gently loosen the belly, and have sometimes been made ingredients in decoctions for removing a costive habit.
It contains resin and mucilage, in addition to saponin, which is its leading principle, and by virtue of which decoctions of the root produce a soapy froth.
Vegetable infusions and decoctions may be cleared by defecation followed by filtration.
The concentrated infusions and decoctions being usually weak tinctures, may be filtered in the same way as the latter.
One of the above mordants is followed by a bath made by mixing equal parts of the decoctions of logwood, fustic, and Brazil-wood.
Some concentrated decoctionshave been recently offered for sale which do not contain alcohol, being preserved by the addition of sulphurous acid, or sulphite of lime.
Neither decoctions nor infusions are fit to be used in dispensing, unless made the same day.
In general it is found that, as decoctions cool, a sediment is formed, in consequence of the boiling water dissolving a larger portion of vegetable matter than it can retain in solution when cold.
The decoctionsof the same vegetables may be made by simply boiling the above ingredients, in the same proportions, for 10 or 15 minutes, instead of operating by mere infusion.
The mixed decoctions are then allowed 12 or 14 hours for defecation, after which the supernatant portion is decanted and evaporated.
It is often very difficult to render vegetable infusions and decoctions perfectly transparent, a quality always expected in the concentrated preparations.
Long boiling is in no case necessary, and should be avoided, especially in decoctionsprepared from aromatic vegetables, or those abounding in extractive.
This is employed under the form of shavings, raspings, and sawdust, in decoctions only.
The old name of the compound decoctions of sarsaparilla and guaiacum.
Among chemists this term is understood to apply to the residuum of the evaporation of aqueous decoctions or infusions of vegetable matter.
Chills and fever were treated with decoctions of dogwood bark, and fever patients who craved something sour, were given a weak acid drink, made by fermenting a small quantity of meal in a barrel of water.
For diarrhea red pepper and decoctions of blackberry root and of pine leave were given.
Instead of this the whole Body should be fomented, with some one of the Decoctions already mentioned: and when the Violence has been chiefly impressed on the Head, Wine and Water should be prefered to Vinegar.
The disgusting decoctionsand useless syrups gave place to tinctures, essences, and extracts.
Paracelsus first raised the dignity of chemistry, by pointing out the necessity of it for medical men, and by showing the superiority of chemical medicines over the disgusting decoctions of the Galenists.
That Infusions and Decoctions of aromatic plants do not furnish a complete Extract of those plants; because they do not contain the volatile and odorous parts, in which the principal virtue of such plants usually resides.
Infusions or slight decoctions of mucilaginous plants, when evaporated to dryness, become actual Gums.
Still less irritating are weak decoctions of cereals, such as barley and rice water.
In case of intestinal diseases milk must be substituted for other diet, with decoctions of cereal flour.
All solutions of dyestuffs, as well as of chemicals, ought to be carefully filtered, and decoctions of woods, etc.
On several occasions he had pretended to be ill in order to have an excuse for visiting the "hartebeeste house," when the nasty decoctions he received from the hands of Jacomina tasted as sweet as nectar.
It was she who presided, like another Medea, over the brewing of the decoctions; it was she who neatly bound up and carefully stored away the different kinds of dried herbs from which these decoctions were made.
The beet and the decoctions are intended to indicate the insipidity of Euripides' style.
I do not recollect that it has already been mentioned, that previous to entering upon the solemnity of their sacrifices, the Indians prepare themselves by vomiting, fasting, and drinking decoctions from certain prescribed plants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decoctions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
