These agents could be used in a pure form but are best utilized in concoctions, plasters, poultices, packs, washes or fumigants. |
Doctors in those days prescribed mustard poultices or the like and Mother knew all about those. |
The healers have their bandages and their poultices, their medicine and their skill. |
In Java, poultices of the herb are applied to old sores, scurvy, and other skin conditions. |
It is usually followed by herbal plasters and poultices called lepa to help draw toxins out of the pores of the skin. |
Bandages and poultices covered the burn, and provided enough relief from the pain that she could function normally again. |