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DECOCTION, med. jurisp. The operation of boiling certain ingredients in a
fluid, for the purpose of extracting the parts soluble at that temperature.
Decoction also means the product of this operation.
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Because of these ambiguities, I have limited my own use of the evanescent term "popular" to popular discourse, explained earlier as gossip, rumor, testimony, and the mass media decoctions of all three, and expanding that meaning in material ways, to popular representations. These are the stricken palsied brood of sin In whose vile veins, poor, poisonous and thin, Decoctions of embittered hatreds crawl: These are the Water-Drinkers, cursed all Nadi swedana is a localized application of steam with herbal decoctions and medicated oils. |
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