decoction

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

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2021

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 "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The continual and regular influx of the nervous juices is stopped by their component fibres being contracted from the roughness and restringency of such decoctions.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh

In 1847–48, William and Elizabeth Dakin were granted patents in England on an apparatus for "cleaning and roasting coffee and for making decoctions."

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

These leaves then, boiled with licorice, gave us a delicious drink all the winter, which had nothing in common with the pale decoctions we nowadays moisten our throats with at the end of a dinner-party.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle