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decoction

[dih-kok-shuhn] / dɪˈkɒk ʃən /








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It takes about 10 minutes for the decoction to percolate into the glass below.

From BBC

So did doctors, whose quack remedies included cupping, bleeding and herbal decoctions.

From The Guardian

At-the-ready decoction is a thrilling convenience, even for someone like me who carries her filter everywhere she goes.

From Salon

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

What is the voice, I meditated, but an expulsion of air; a few vapors scented with the curdled decoctions of the stomach, vegetables mulching and pulverized beef?

From Literature