decoction

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By March, TCM remedies constituted some of China's health ministry’s recommended treatments for COVID-19, and included a couple of dozen pills, powders, injectable therapies and recipes to make herbal teas, known as decoctions.

From Nature

As his story illustrates, it was a sublime and ridiculous decoction of forces that created the perfect storm that burst over the European continent, creating what we now call the Reformation and the future.

From Time

“After we roast the bark, we cook it in water to create a ‘decoction’ from the bark,” Joyce said in an e-mail, describing the liquor-like substance the mixture creates.

From Washington Post

I have one preventive practice: eating wild plants, which Old Wives from every age insist into stews, salads and decoctions.

From New York Times

The Chronicle vowed "to tell the truth about breakfasts of stale bread and rancid butterine, the watery tea, the pallid chicory decoction which serves for coffee, the crowded, dingy, and ill-ventilated dormitories".

From BBC