decoction
Noun
Meaning
The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
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Before a baby was breast-fed, he/she was given a decoction of the endodermis of alder and the roots of butterburs to discharge impurities.
Also, it is of special value against the plague, the decoction thereof being drunk and the root smelled.
This decoction is a tea made from boiled leaves and vines, known as hoasca within the UDV, and ayahuasca in different cultures.
First Nation communities Ethnobotany The Hudson Bay Cree use a decoction of the leaves of Kalmia latifolia for diarrhea, but they consider the plant to be poisonous.
In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay, thereby allowing the Brazil -based União do Vegetal (UDV) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year.
Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co. (p. 42) The Hudson Bay Cree use a decoction of the leaves for diarrhea, but consider the plant to be poisonous.