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These disorders can all be treated equally effectively with a decoction of salvia alone.
Astragalus is typically prescribed as a dried root, powdered, or in a decoction.
The other was a decoction of green sneezewort, which was also declared to be excellent in some way or other.
A decoction, infusion or tincture of the seeds is useful in nervous debility, hysteria and other nervous disorders.
The syrup was a decoction of yin and yang tonic and balancing herbs to preserve her vital energy.
The oral ingestion of the same decoction may have improved cold tolerance due to its thermogenic effect.
These herbs contain volatile oils that come out very quickly, and evaporate out of the decoction if steeped too long.
Treatments in vogue included horseback riding for pulmonary tuberculosis, and a decoction of carrots for jaundice.
When suffering from chills and diarrhea, a decoction of herb bennet is suggested.
Medicinal plants are predominantly wildcrafted and dispensed mainly by decoction, although prepared formulas are given.
Irvine writes that a decoction of crushed stems is drunk in Ghana for severe sickness and weakness.
Foment the limb with cloths immersed in a strong decoction of hops, and repeat two or three times a day.
Smells like a decoction of mild tropical fruits with some pears in there and a certain frisky note of red capsicum.
When I have the time I make a decoction by harvesting sprigs of the plant before it has flowered, enough to half fill a large saucepan.
The dark colour comes from highly roasted malt, and other characteristic flavours arise during the decoction mashing process.
Finally, people once believed that a strong decoction of the willow inner bark was the perfect cure for veneral diseases.
The finely filtered decoction can be used as a morning eyewash.
They use it topically, they use it as mouthwash, enema and douche and they get some pretty amazing results with a Sheep Sorrel decoction alongside the four herbs.
This requires some form of temperature programming, which is achieved by decoction mashing.
A small percentage of white vinegar is added to the decoction.
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A strong decoction makes a useful wash for falling of the womb, or fundament.
If a brownish touch is desired, add some more decoction of fustic when the black is nearly done.
The neighbour gave us spruce beer, a flat decoction, which we found somewhat insipid, and then he started to talk.
For a rich mild red colour, rectified spirits of naphtha, dyed with camwood dust, or an oily decoction of alkanet-root.
From the decoction of the fresh root of couch grass, evaporated to the consistence of new honey.
A decoction of pearl-barley and couch-grass, flavoured with liquorice root.
The flowers are given in decoction for headache and the fruit is emmenagogue.
He also speaks of the diuretic properties of a decoction from its trailing roots.
Another and effective remedy is the root of the male fern, Aspidium filix-mas, used in decoction or electuary.
With the leaves of the latter they make a decoction which, mixed with hydromel, is an antidote for intermittent fevers.
The natives take a decoction of kousso once a month as a cure for the tapeworm.
Besides, both men early established on their cheeks an invulnerable glaze of a decoction of pine tar, oil, and a pungent herb.
In Concan the sweetened decoction of the plant with a little cumin seed is given for dyspepsia with pyrosis.
A decoction of this bark is a valuable application for falling of the fundament, or womb.
This preparation is frequently substituted for guaiacum shavings in the preparation of compound decoction of sarsaparilla.
To produce sweating, employ cardus water, and mithridate, or a decoction of guaiacum and sarsaparilla.
In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.
Ainslie states that the decoction is employed as a vermifuge and purgative.
The remedies in common use are the polygala seneca or Aristolochia serpentaria, employed as a decoction.
If a dead black is wanted, add some decoction of quercitron or turmeric to the bath.
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