decoction

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This Medicine is certainly no cheap one; but a Decoction of other bitter Plants, with the Addition of Spirit of Salt, may sometimes do instead of it.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Decoction of the inner bark is used for diarrhea.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James

They may be relieved in the Fit by Glysters of a Decoction of Chamomile Flowers, in which a Bit of Soap of the Size of a Hazel Nut is dissolved.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

More Water may, after the first boiling, be poured on the same Ingredients, and be boiled up into a small Decoction for common Drink.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

All the kinds of Succory, the Decoction of Solanum or Night-shade; the Juices of these Plants, as also those of Scabious, Geranium or Stork-Bill, Herniaria or Rupture-Wort, Plantain, &c. are very good in the beginning.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel