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decoction

noun as in preparation

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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.

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?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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